Record Details

NHER Number:5613
Type of record:Monument
Name:Neolithic and Bronze Age flint and pottery finds

Summary

Neolithic or Bronze Age flint flake tools were found in the waste matter of a quarry in 1975. One of the flakes was fire marked. Also found were portions of pot boilers and a small fragment of Bronze Age pottery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1439 1608
Map Sheet:TG11NW
Parish:ATTLEBRIDGE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

September 1975. Stray Find.
Found in the detritus of the south face of a quarry.
Neolithic flint flake tools (or Bronze Age?). One fire-marked, portions of pot boilers, and one small sherd of Bronze Age pottery.
Found by A. Rogerson (NAU), identified by A.J. Lawson (NAU).
NCM (NWHCM : 1975.592).
E. Rose (NAU).

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1975. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1975. No 22. p 3.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 11 NW 17.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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