Record Details

NHER Number:39618
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic flint blade core and Neolithic flint rod-shaped implement

Summary

In 2003 a Neolithic flint rod-shaped implement was found at this location. A Mesolithic flint blade core was found somewhere in the vicinity in 2004.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 25527 08001
Map Sheet:TG20NE
Parish:TROWSE WITH NEWTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 18 July 2003. Stray Find.
Found on Whitlingham Lakes development site:
1 Neolithic rod-shaped flint artefact.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 August 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2014.

27 July 2004. Stray Find.
Found on Whitlingham New Broad site, exact findspot not noted:
1 Mesolithic flint blade core. See drawing (S1).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file. This discovery was reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Robins, P. 2005. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint blade core from Trowse with Newton. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2006. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2005. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 112-123. p 113.

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