Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31164 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and metal-detecting between 1994 and 2002 recovered many worked flints, the more diagnostic of which included Mesolithic tranchet axe/adzes, blades and microlith; a Mesolithic/Early Neolithic blade; an Early Neolithic laurel leaf; a Neolithic ?arrowhead, leaf arrowhead, axehead roughouts, various scrapers and other retouched tools and several potentially Bronze Age pieces including a long narrow piercer. Other finds recovered included Iron Age, Roman and medieval pottery sherds; a Roman key; a medieval brooch and post-medieval spur fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 96 37 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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| Parish: | HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1994. Fieldwalking.
Field collection by [1] in western part of field, on western side of cropping division (finder's Field 13).
2 Mesolithic flint tranchet axes/adzes, 1 microlith fragment and 3 blade cores. See drawings of tranchet axes/adzes and microlith (S1). Although other items in the collection may relate to these Mesolithic implements, none is sufficiently diagnostic to pick out, nor are there an striking differences in patination or flint type.
1 Neolithic leaf arrowhead, 1 flake knife and 1 laurel leaf/knife.
6 ?Bronze Age flint 'thumbnail' scrapers.
30 undatable prehistoric flint scrapers, 2 hollow scrapers, 6 notched pieces, 9 piercers, 1 denticulate scraper, 1 'strike-a-light', 1 core scraper, 1 fabricator, 23 retouched pieces, 16 cores, 1 core tablet, 1 hammerstone, 14 blades and 47 flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list, description and finder's map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 2 May 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
1994-June 1995. Metal-detecting and fieldwalking.
Found by [1] in "plateau area":
2 Neolithic flint axe roughouts, 1 ?unfinished arrowhead, 8 side scrapers, 35 end scrapers, 4 piercers, 14 notches/hollow scrapers, 23 miscellaneous retouched pieces, 16 cores and 150 flakes.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint plano-convex knife and 1 'thumbnail scraper'.
1 ?Middle Bronze flint piercer.
3 Roman pottery sherds (greyware).
1 medieval pottery sherd (glazed Grimston) and 1 medieval brooch.
2 post-medieval spurs.
Found by [1] on "north facing slope":
3 ?Mesolithic flint blades (1 with later retouch) and 1 flake. All white patinated.
1 Late Prehistoric notched flake, 6 retouched flakes, 1 core fragment and 8 flakes.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM), pottery by A. Rogerson (NLA) and other objects by S. Margeson (NCM). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 October 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
1995-1996. Fieldwalking.
1 Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint flake knife, 2 scrapers, 1 retouched blade and 1 flake.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 May 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
1997 to 1998. Fieldwalking.
1 ?Mesolithic ?blade core and 1 blade.
1 Neolithic ?axehead roughout.
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age horseshoe scraper, 1 end and side scraper, 6 end scrapers, 6 flake knives, 4 piercers, 1 notched piece/hollow scraper, 10 miscellaneous retouched pieces, 4 blades and 23 flakes.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
1 ?Iron Age pottery sherd.
3 medieval pottery sherds (2 unglazed and 1 glazed Grimston).
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM) and pottery by A. Rogerson (NLA). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 11 January 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
Before 5 July 2002. Metal detecting and fieldwalking.
1 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic retouched/utilised flint blade.
1 Early Neolithic flint laurel leaf.
1 Neolithic flint horseshoe scrapers and 12 rounded end scrapers.
1 ?Neolithic flint combination tool (scraper/knife).
2 ?Late Neolithic flint rods.
7 undatable prehistoric flint borers, 2 side scrapers, 18 retouched flakes and 40 unmodified flakes.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
14 Roman pottery sherds (1 Samian and 13 greyware) and 1 tumbler lock slide key.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other objects by A. Rogerson (NLA). See list and descriptions in file).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 December 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- DENTICULATE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FABRICATOR (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HOLLOW SCRAPER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SIDE SCRAPER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- STRIKE A LIGHT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BLADE CORE? (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- RETOUCHED BLADE? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- ARROWHEAD? (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT? (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BORER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- COMBINATION TOOL (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HOLLOW SCRAPER? (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOLLOW SCRAPER? (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SIDE SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- ROD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- BORER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 1001 BC?)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SLIDE KEY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| --- | Photograph: 2002. KTK 31-32, Romano British key.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1994. Drawings of two Mesolithic flint tranchet axes/adzes and a flint microlith fragment from Hindringham. |
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