Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4520 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced ?Late Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age finds (Beachamwell, poorly located) |
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Summary
Various objects known to have been recovered in Beechamwell during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additional information regarding provenance. These finds include potentially Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blades; a Mesolithic microlith, blades and blade cores and various Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint implements.
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Full description
Finds known to have been recovered in Beechamwell during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additional information regarding provenance.
FINDS IN THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM
The Norwich Castle Museum holds a mixed collection of finds that was bequethed by Rev. R. C. Nightingale (NWHCM : 1915.73), most, if not all of which are believed to have been found in Beachamwell. Worked flints in this collection include:
7 ?Upper Palaeolithic blades.
1 Mesolithic microlith, 1 serrated blade, 5 single-platform blade cores and 65 blades/bladelets.
1 ?Late Prehistoric ?fabricator.
The collection also includes 2 Mesolithic blade cores that are marked as being from Toot Hill (NHER 4530) and it is therefore possible that at least some of the unprovenanced Mesolithic material was also from this site.
Other finds include in the collection include:
2 Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint axeheads with polished cutting edges (1 small, 1 waisted).
Information from (S1).
Previously recorded as NHER 4526.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 September 2014.
REPORTED DISCOVERIES
Pre 1935.
Neolithic flints found by W. G. Clarke, no provenance beyond parish 'Numerous Neoliths and Cissbury types (W. G. Clarke note in (S1) also polished types'. R. R. Clarke.
See (S2), notes these including 10 barbed and tanged arrowheads, 5 chipped axes, 2 polished axes, 1 adze, and see also NHER 21278 to NHER 21279 for other finds.
E. Rose (NAU) 22 April 1985.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC?)
- FABRICATOR? (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- SERRATED BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 NE 4; TF 70 NE 11. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 4520 and 4526. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Beechamwell. |
| <S1> | Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 67. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1925. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol V Pt I pp 87-88. p 87. |
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