Record Details

NHER Number:20018
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic and Bronze Age flint finds

Summary

Fieldwalking from 1979 recovered numerous Neolithic/ Bronze age worked flint objects, including scrapers, blades, flakes and an unfinished axe.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 2379 0589
Map Sheet:TG20NW
Parish:BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Spring 1979. Surface of drilled field.
Fifty flakes, six scrapers, six cores, forty blades/segments. Much 'night soil' on field. Finder's site 333b.
Identified by . A.J.Lawson (NAU) 10 September 1980.
J.J. Wymer (NAU) 5 December 1983.

1987. Found in fieldwalking.
Unfinished flint axe, broken in blocking out and an erratic - not a polisher.
Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU). W. Milligan (NCM) 16 May 1987.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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