Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30174 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic arrowheads, scrapers, core, fabricator and axehead fragment |
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Summary
It is recorded that between 1937 and 1950 a number of Neolithic tools, including leaf and transverse arrowheads, scrapers, and an axehead fragment, were recovered from this area.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 772 884 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL78NE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1937-1950. All marked 'Field opposite Weeting Row Fengate'.
Core fragment, leaf arrowhead, chisel arrowhead, oblique arrowhead, another fragmentary, another unfinished, nine scrapers, flaked axe, two retouched pieces.
1940-1947. Marked 'Opposite Park Cottage Fengate'.
Heavy missile head and scraper.
1940-1948. Marked 'Opposite Parkside Fengate'.
Core, chisel arrowhead, triangular arrowhead, three scrapers.
1936-1949. Marked 'Opposite Game Hut Fengate'.
Two leaf arrowheads, barbed and tanged arrowhead, retouched piece, fabricator.
According to F. Healy's Wissey Embayment gazetteer these are all the same field; however the field called 'Near Game Hut' she puts some way away at site NHER 30172.
All finds are in the NCM [1].
E. Rose (NAU), 1 December 1993.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Beaker - 4000 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
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