Record Details

NHER Number:24661
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints and ?Iron Age pottery

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1988 recovered Mesolithic blades, a Neolithic flint fabricator and a flake and a fragment of pottery that was probably Iron Age.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7902 9451
Map Sheet:TL79SE
Parish:CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

April 1988. Fieldwalking.
3 Mesolithic flint blades.
1 Neolithic fabricator and flake.
1 ?Iron Age pottery sherd ( J. Wymer (NAU) suggests Neolithic but A. Gregory (NCM) says Iron Age).
These discoveries were reported in (S1) and the finds were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.12.8).
W. Milligan (NCM) 13 April 1988. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 August 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 35.

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