Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2514 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Mesolithic or later and Neolithic finds, Wereham Fen (Wereham, poorly located) |
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Summary
Finds known to have been recovered on Wereham Fen during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additonal information regarding provenance. These objects include a Mesolithic or later macehead and several Neolithic flint axeheads.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Finds known to have been recovered on Wereham Fen during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additonal information regarding provenance. Wereham Fen is a narrow strip of land at the southern end of Wereham parish.
FINDS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Brighton Museum holds 3 flint "celts" from Wereham Fen. Information from (S1).
Presumably Neolithic flint axeheads.
A prehistoric unfinished macehead from Wereham Fen is (or was) part of the British Museum's Sturge Collection. Possibly found by W. G. Clarke? Information from (S1). This object is noted in (S2) and it is listed in (S3) as a pebble macehead. The present location of this macehead is unknown - it was not located when the British Museum's collections were examined by E. Rose (NAU). Pebble maceheads are not closely datable, having been found in both Mesolithic and later prehistoric contexts.
Previously recorded as NHER 4398.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- PEBBLE MACE (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 2514 and 4398. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Wereham. |
| <S2> | Publication: Smith, R. A. 1931. The Sturge Collection: an illustrated selection of flints from Britain bequeathed in 1919 by William Allen Sturge. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 215. |
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