Record Details

NHER Number:14804
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints, Santon Warren

Summary

Mesolithic and Neolithic cores and flakes found during fieldwalking in 1967. A Neolithic petit tranchet derivative flint arrowhead was also recovered.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 833 873
Map Sheet:TL88NW
Parish:LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1967. Fieldwalking.
Various prehistoric worked flints found on a "…disturbed surface over a wide area…". The items recovered included Mesolithic and Neolithic flint cores and waste flakes. Information from (S1). As noted by both (S2) and (S3), a Neolithic petit tranchet derivative arrowhead was also found.
E. Rose (NAU), 30 April 1979. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2013.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 NW 53.
<S1>Serial: 1967. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1967. No 14. p 9.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S3>Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 429.

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