Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31360 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
Fieldwalking between 1994 and 1995 recovered a range of worked flints, including a ?Mesolithic/Early Bronze Age blade core; a Neolithic axe/adze and adze fragment; a ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age end scraper and an undatable prehistoric end scraper and flakes.
In 1994/5 two Neolithic flint axes were found, together with a selection of other flints dating from the Mesolithc to the Bronze Age.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1271 3972 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13NW |
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| Parish: | BODHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 1994/January 1995. Fieldwalking.
1 undatable prehistoric flint end scraper, 1 retouched flake and 2 long narrow flakes.
1 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint conical blade core.
1 Neolithic flaked adze/axe (S1) and 1 adze fragment (S2).
1 ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint end scraper.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and descriptions in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA), 9 June 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 1501 BC?)
Associated Finds
- END SCRAPER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- 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)
- BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD? (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 1501 BC?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P.. 1995. Drawing of a Neolithic flint axe/adze.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Robins, P.. 1995. Drawing of a Neolithic flint adze fragment.. Paper. 1:1. |
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