Record Details

NHER Number:28295
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric finds and Early Saxon pottery

Summary

A prehistoric flint scraper and Early Saxon pottery found during fieldwalking. Metal detecting recovered an Early Bronze Age dagger.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 00 36
Map Sheet:TG03NW
Parish:GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

December 1990. General area of finds.
1 flint scraper, small.
6 flint flakes.
1 bodysherd, pimply grits, handmade, dark grey with orange exterior. ?Early Saxon.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 February 1991.

Before 12 October 2005. Metal detecting.
Early Bronze Age dagger, (S1), found near Hindringham Road.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 November 2005.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • DAGGER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age dagger.. Film. 1:1.

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