Record Details
NHER Number: | 32177 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
An incomplete Neolithic leaf arrowhead, a possible Neolithic arrowhead tip were found. A prehistoric flint knife and scrapers had been found earlier in a pipe trench. A transverse arrowhead and more scrapers have also been recovered.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 982 832 |
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Map Sheet: | TL98SE |
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Parish: | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1983.
Finds mostly from west side of road near a small pond.
Large scatter including NHER 19835, 19836, 19838, and overlaps with NHER 19837. Grid reference supplied by [1].
Found by [1]:
1 Early Neolithic leaf arrowhead (incomplete). Snapped at both ends, width 23mm, thickness 3mm. Residual length 40mm. Shallow pressure flaking over whole of both surfaces. Pale grey flint with slight patina.
1 Neolithic arrowhead tip. 15 x 14 x 2mm. Sharp tip, shallow pressure flaking on both faces but some residual flake blank surface on one face. Could be from a leaf or an oblique arrowhead.
1 Neolithic miniature flint adze. See drawing (S1).
?Neolithic flint knife and scrapers earlier found in pipe trench (not seen).
Found by [2]:
1 Neolithic triangular arrowhead and scrapers (not seen).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 January 1997.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- KNIFE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- MINIATURE OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
<S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1997. Drawing of a Neolithic miniature flint adze. Paper. 1:1. |
Related records
19835 | Part of: Prehistoric flint scraper (Find Spot) |
19836 | Part of: Prehistoric flint scraper (Find Spot) |
19838 | Part of: Prehistoric scraper (Find Spot) |
19837 | Related to: Neolithic axehead and flint flakes (Find Spot) |