Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32285 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period worked flints |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1996 recovered 126 worked flints, including a ?Mesolithic flaked axe fragment and four scrapers of possible Neolithic date. The remaining pieces, including flakes, a core, and various retouched tools, were not closely datable, but potentially later Bronze Age
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0546 3639 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NE |
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| Parish: | THORNAGE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1996. Fieldwalking finds.
?Mesolithic flaked flint axehead fragment. See drawing (S1).
4 ?Neolithic flint end scrapers.
79 Late Prehistoric (possibly later Bronze Age) flint flakes, 1 core, 14 miscellaneous retouched flakes, 19 scrapers, 6 notched pieces, 1 spurred piece and 1 flake knife.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and notes in file. These discoveries were reported in (S2).
H. Geake (NCM), 5 November 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC?)
- END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- BORER (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- CORE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1996. Drawing of a ?Mesolithic flaked flint axehead fragment from Thornage. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1998. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1997. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt I pp 181-192. p 182. |
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