Record Details
| NHER Number: | 16389 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic/Early Neolithic worked flints and ?Early Saxon and medieval pottery sherds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking here between 1980 and 1983 recovered a sizable assemblage of Early Neolithic (or possibly Mesolithic) worked flints, including blades, cores, scrapers and a number of other implements. Potentially Early Saxon and medieval pottery sherds were also found.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1194 1176 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | HONINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1980. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] (finder's Site 20b):
?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flints ("very early Neolithic with strong Mesolithic traits") including 7 scrapers, 1 bifacial tool, 22 "points" and ?burins, 100 blades, 6 blade cores and 3 irregular cores.
Several ?Early Saxon handmade pottery sherds.
Several medieval sherds (including green-glazed Grimston - all abraded).
Identified by E. Rose (NAU) and A. Lawson (NAU). Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1980.
Information from (S1).
There appears to be a certain amount of confusion between these finds and material recorded as being from nearby NHER 16390. The record of the material recovered at NHER 16390 (by the same finder and at the same time) lists a collection of "additional" finds, including 250 small flakes, 7 scrapers, 1 bifacially worked knife, 22 "points/broken blades", 100 blades, 6 blade cores, 3 irregular cores, 15 prehistoric pottery sherds and 5 medieval sherds. It seems highly likely that most, if not all, of these are in fact the finds described above (which would account for the surprising absence of any unmodified flakes in the original list). If this is indeed the case it would suggest that the ?Early Saxon sherds are in fact prehistoric (and probably Early Neolithic).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 May 2014.
1983. Fieldwalking.
Details as above.
Early Neolithic flint flakes.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 11 July 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 May 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- BURIN? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- KNIFE? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- RETOUCHED BLADE? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC)
- POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 16389 and 16391. |
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