Record Details

NHER Number:30875
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric burnt mound, miniature Neolithic flint axehead, Iron Age gold stater

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1994 recorded an area of pot boilers and blackened soil thought to be the remains of a prehistoric burnt bound, as well as a miniature flint axehead. Also recovered from this site is an Iceni gold stater of Norfolk Wolf type, previously recorded as coming from NHER 30660.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TF92SW
Parish:STANFIELD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

September 1994. Fieldwalking finds.
Area of pot boilers and black soil.
Miniature flint axe, (S1), in same area.
See description in file.
See also (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 October 1994.

Also from this site is the Iceni gold stater of Norfolk Wolf type previously recorded as coming from NHER 30660 context 2.
See coin form in file.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • MINIATURE OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Slide: Various. Slide.
<S1>Illustration: Robins, P.. 1994. Drawing of a prehistoric miniature flint axe head.. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Article in Serial: Robins, P. 1996. Miniature Axes in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 374-376.

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