Record Details

NHER Number:5098
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic and Beaker finds

Summary

Neolithic flints including chisels, knives, a scraper and an axehead and a Beaker barbed and tanged arrowhead, all found in the early 20th century.

Images - none

Location

Parish:MUNDFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

About 1911.
Three chipped chisels, fabricator type, largest 10/12cm x 3.5cm (4/5" x 1.4") having ground cutting edge.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

About 1904 to 1905.
1 flat scraper.
See (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

About 1912.
1 borer.
See (S3).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

1904 to 1905.
Flint knife.
See (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

1909.
Oval stout knife badly chipped 6.8cm x 4cm (2.7" x 1.6").
See (S4) and (S5).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

About 1914.
1 barbed and tanged finely chipped javelin head straight sided with pointed barbs and oblong tang (point missing). See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

About 1908.
1 well chipped flint celt with ridged back 12.9cm x 4.3cm (5.1" x 1.7") (S6).
1 celt; flat, elongate, carefully shaped and finely chipped, tapering from the partially ground, wide, rounded cutting edge, to the pointed butt (5.3" x 1.8") (S7).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Beaker - 4000 BC to 1700 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CHISEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (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: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Mundford [6].
<S1>Article in Serial: 1915. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. Vol XIX, p 95. p 91.
<S2>Article in Serial: 1908. Appendix No. II. List of local objects purchased for the museum with the grants made by the society to December 1905. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XII (New Series Vol VI) pp 12-13. p 12.
<S3>Article in Serial: 1915. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. Vol XIX, p 95. p 95.
<S4>Article in Serial: 1909. Appendix II. Purchases by the curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with grants from the Council. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XIV (New Series Vol VIII) pp 59-62. p 59.
<S5>Article in Serial: 1911. Appendix II. Purchases by the curator of the museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with grants from the Council. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XV (New Series Vol IX) pp 10-12. p 11.
<S6>Article in Serial: 1909. Appendix. Purchases by the curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with grants from the Council. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XIII (New Series Vol VII) pp 7-11. p 7.
<S7>Article in Serial: 1909. Appendix II. Purchases by the curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with grants from the Council. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XIV (New Series Vol VIII) pp 59-62. p 59.

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