Record Details

NHER Number:36175
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Unprovenanced Mesolithic blade, Shouldham Warren (Shouldham, poorly located)

Summary

In 1997 a small flint blade with a broken tip was found somewhere on Shouldham Warren. This blade was dated to the Mesolithic period.

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Location

Parish:SHOULDHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1997. Stray Find.
Found on Shouldham Warren (a large area of woodland plantations centred at TF 677 110):
1 small blade, broken at tip, patinated greyish white. No secondary working.
Form and condition suggests a Mesolithic date.
This discovery was reported in (S1).
K. Hinds (NLA) 17 May 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 November 2013.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2002. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 149-162. p 150.

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