Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23810 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic and Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint core and a number of Mesolithic/Neolithic flint cores and flakes were found here in 1987. Subsequent fieldwalking at this location the following year recovered additional prehistoric worked flints including Mesolithic/Neolithic flint blades.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2429 1621 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NW |
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| Parish: | SPIXWORTH, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February to March 1987. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1]:
1 Mesolithic core.
Mesolithic/Neolithic flakes and cores.
Identifications by J. Wymer (NAU). Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 17 March 1987.
Information from (S1). These discoveries were reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2014.
April 1988. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1], probably at this location:
2 Mesolithic/Neolithic flint blades.
1 undated prehistoric flint pick/axe (?unfinished), 2 scrapers, 10 cores and a number of flakes and blades (some with retouch).
Identified by NCM staff, see notes and map in file [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 28 July 2016.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- WHETSTONE (Unknown date)
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- PICK? (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED 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)
- BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1988. Archaeological Discoveries for 1987. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 33 pp 30-56. p 53. |
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