Record Details

NHER Number:44777
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Unprovenanced ?Mesolithic flint flake, beach between Winterton and Horsey (Winterton on Sea, poorly located)

Summary

A potentially Mesolithic flint flake was found on the beach between Winterton and Horsey in 2006.

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Location

Parish:WINTERTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

9 March 2006. Stray Find.
Found on stretch of beach described as "north of lifeboat station, twenty five to thirty minutes' walk, between Winterton and Horsey":
1 ?Mesolithic blade-like flint flake.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file. This discovery was reported in (S1).
E. Darch (NLA), 31 March 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2007. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2006. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt II pp 250-261. p 251.

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