Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7798 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint mine/flint working site |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and excavation here during the period 1900-15 identified an extensive surface scatter of flint pieces as well as a flint-filled pit. Subsequent fieldwalking in the 1970s and 80s recovered more flint artefacts including axehead roughouts, a hammerstone and a pick or chisel. This evidence suggests that a flint mine and lithic tool production site was located here in the Neolithic period.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 145 123 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1900-14. Extensive flint site of Neolithic date fieldwalked.
1914-15. Excavation of flint pit by [1].
Undated early 20th century flint finds including axes.
See (S3) for further details. It is noted in (S4) that one of the objects recorded in (S3) appears to be a medium-sized Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead.
1978. Fieldwalking of flint site.
1982-3. Fieldwalking of flint site.
1986. Fieldwalking after deep ploughing produced more flints.
Full list, detailed report, site plan (S1) and drawings (S2) of 1982-6 in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 6 February 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLINT MINE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PIT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Clark, W. G. 1906. The Classification of Norfolk Flint Implements. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt 2 (for 1905-1906) pp 215-230. pp 223-226. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Implements of Palaeolithic "Cave" Types. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt III (for 1912-13) pp 338-345. pp 339-341; Pl LXXVI. |
| --- | Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 67. |
| --- | Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1922. Our Homeland Prehistoric Antiquities: and how to study them. p 103. |
| --- | Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 126. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 11 SW 8. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Article in Serial: 1913. Proceedings of Archaeological Societies [2 of 3]. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 191-195. p 194. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Ringland. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Unknown. 1990. Drawings of Neolithic flint axehead roughouts, a hammerstone and a pick or chisel.. Film. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1915. A Prehistoric Flint-Pit at Ringland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt I (for 1914-15) pp 148-151. Pl XXXIV. |
| <S4> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 211. |
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