Record Details
NHER Number: | 42832 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Multi-period finds |
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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.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 13979 39489 |
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Map Sheet: | TG13NW |
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Parish: | WEST BECKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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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
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Related records - none
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