Record Details

NHER Number:7451
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flint find

Summary

A Neolithic flint fabricator was found in about 1920.

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Location

Parish:SALLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Neolithic fabricator found in about 1920-1.
Found by W. G. Clarke.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

?Same as 'finely chipped flint chisel found at Sall on Mr.Edward Stimpson's farm. It was 5 inches in length, 3/4 of an inch wide in the middle, and tapering at each end to 3/8 of an inch. It was beautifully symmetrical, highly lustrous with ochreous patina, and both edges had been rubbed'.
Exhibited by W.G.Clarke who thought it could have come from Scandinavia.
Information from (S1).
R.J. Rickett (NAU), 21 June 1990.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Article in Serial: 1922. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol III Pt IV (for 1921-22) pp 607-624. pp 607-608.
---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. Sall.
<S1>Record Card: Ordnance Survey Records / Pastscape.

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