Record Details

NHER Number:42832
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in around 2005 recovered two potentially Palaeolithic flint flakes; Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blades; an Early Neolithic flint projectile point, possible laurel leaf and cores and a range of Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints, including scrapers, knives, borers, retouched flakes, hammerstones and approximately 500 flakes. A small number of medieval to modern pottery sherds and post-medieval clay pipe fragments were also found.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 13979 39489
Map Sheet:TG13NW
Parish:WEST BECKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 26 November 2005. Fieldwalking.
29 ?prehistoric burnt flints.
1 ?Lower Palaeolithic flint scraper and 1 flake (both with deep patination and dark brown staining).
20 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blades.
1 Early Neolithic leaf-shaped flint projectile head, 1 ?unfinished laurel leaf and 22 cores (15 single platform and 7 two or more platform).
57 Neolithic/Bronze Age scrapers (including 29 ?Neolithic end scrapers, 7 small ?Early Bronze Age end scrapers, 10 ?Bronze Age side scrapers and 3 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age ‘button’ scrapers), 3 flake knives, 8 piercers, 2 notched flakes, 13 miscellaneous retouched flakes, 3 hammerstones, 1 keeled core and approximately 500 flakes/flake fragments.
38 medieval to modern pottery sherds.
30 post-medieval clay pipe stems.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and descriptions in file.
E. Darch (NLA), 5 December 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 July 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 21st Century - 1066 AD to 2100 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • KEELED CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • KNIFE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LAUREL LEAF? (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • NOTCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • PROJECTILE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 1501 BC?)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • POT (Medieval to 21st Century - 1066 AD to 2050 AD)
  • CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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