Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20496 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flint objects, Iron Age baked clay sling shot, Breckland Forest |
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Summary
Surface collection in 1984 in the Breckland Forest recovered an Iron Age baked clay sling shot and fifty-two pieces of prehistoric struck flint.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 797 895 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL78NE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May to June 1984. In Breckland Forest, on east side of A1065 between Brandon and Mundford, in area where trees had been grubbed up.
Surface collection made by [1], comprising one Iron Age baked clay sling shot and fifty-two pieces of struck flint (one core, four pieces of irregular waste, thirty-eight flakes including four blades, five scrapers, one borer, one bifacially flaked fragment, perhaps of a pick or fabricator, two miscellaneous retouched pieces).
Sling shot identified by A. Gregory (NAU), June 1984.
Flint identified Frances Healy (NAU), June 1984.
F. Healy (NAU), 3 July1984
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FABRICATOR (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SLING SHOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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