Record Details
NHER Number: | 13817 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Site of a post medieval windmill and Beaker period or Bronze Age dagger or axe |
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Summary
This windmill is marked on Faden's map of Norfolk made in 1797. It was called 'almost new' in 1779. Nothing can be seen on the site that is now a playing field. A Beaker period or Bronze Age flint dagger or axe fragment was found here whilst clearing stones from the playing field.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 990 865 |
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Map Sheet: | TL98NE |
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Parish: | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Approximate site of wind mill marked on (S1). No trace in flat playing field.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 July 1978.
Called 'almost new built' in 1779.
E. Rose 4 February 1982.
Pre 1986. Stray Find
Found in this approximate area "whilst clearing stones from playing field":
1 ?Late Bronze Age/Early Bronze Age broken butt section of flint dagger or thin axe, maximum 76x52mm, green flint, very finely worked, almost flat surfaced. See outline sketch (S2).
Seen via [1].
E. Rose (NAU), 16 April 1986.
Monument Types
- WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Beaker to Middle Bronze Age - 2300 BC to 1501 BC)
- DAGGER (Beaker to Middle Bronze Age - 2300 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
<S2> | Illustration: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
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