Record Details

NHER Number:52502
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Worked flint collection from Stanhoe (Stanhoe, poorly located)

Summary

Fieldwalking in the 1950s, 60s and 70s recovered a very large collection of worked flints, predominantly Neolithic.

Images - none

Location

Parish:STANHOE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Surface finds, 1950s-1970s.
Collection of worked flints, almost all from axe factory (NHER 12261) but including others from the surrounding area.
See lists in file and maps.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 February 2008.

Fieldwalking. 1950s - 1970s.
A very large collection of worked flints, predominantly Neolithic, including roughouts, not a flint mine (chalk too deep).
See HER 12261.
See list, maps, drawings and copy of photo of finder in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 28 October 2008.

October 2009.
Final large batch of worked flints from the Fenn collection, along with four others in the possession of (S\1)
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 30 October 2009.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 7001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 7000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 7001 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • BLADE (Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 7000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • CORE (Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 7000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • AWL (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CHISEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CHOPPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • DISCOIDAL KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • ROD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • ROUGHOUT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SICKLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRIAL PIECE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • AWL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Robins, P.. 2008. Drawings of Neolithic flint sickle blade, notched and bruised blade, and a discoidal knife.. Paper. 1:1.

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