Record Details

NHER Number:24920
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Undatable prehistoric and Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints and Roman pottery

Summary

Fieldwalking here in 1988 recovered a prehistoric flint flake, a broken and reworked Mesolithic/Neolithic flaked flint axehead and a single sherd of Roman greyware pottery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 225 215
Map Sheet:TG22SW
Parish:STRATTON STRAWLESS, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

October 1988. Fieldwalking.
1 undatable prehistoric flint flake.
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic chipped flint axehead fragment (butt end). Broken and used unsuccessfully as small blade core.
1 Roman greyware sherd.
Flints identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU). These discoveries were reported in (S1).
W. Milligan (NCM) 31 October 1988. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 45.

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