Record Details

NHER Number:32177
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric worked flints

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
Map Sheet:TL98SE
Parish:HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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

19835Part of: Prehistoric flint scraper (Find Spot)
19836Part of: Prehistoric flint scraper (Find Spot)
19838Part of: Prehistoric scraper (Find Spot)
19837Related to: Neolithic axehead and flint flakes (Find Spot)
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