Record Details

NHER Number:8734
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic/Bronze Age tanged arrowhead (Saham Toney, poorly located)

Summary

In 1907 a tanged flint arrowhead of Neolithic/Bronze Age date was retrieved from an unspecified location within Saham Toney. The arrowhead showed reddish patination probably caused by prolonged burial in peaty soil.

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Location

Parish:SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

24 August 1907.
Tanged arrowhead (one tang broken) of reddish colour patination probably caused by peat stain.
See sketch in (S1)
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • ARROWHEAD (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. Saham Toney.
<S1>Publication: Clarke, W.G.. Mss 126. p.7.

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