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1980. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] at Context 1 (finder's Site 46b):
Mesolithic/Early Neolithic ("Early Neolithic with strong Mesolithic traits") worked flints including 175 flakes, 17 scrapers, 3 "toothed saws", 2 "points (arrowheads?)", 1 pick (broken, slight tranchet, diamond section), 4 cores, 1 hammerstone and "small waste".
53 Early Neolithic pottery sherds ("Bowl type").
1 ?medieval ?thimble end (small circular fragment impressed with repousse crosses).
Worked flints and Neolithic pottery donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1982.292).

Found by [1] at Context 2 (finder's Site 46c; separated from Site 46b by a barren strip c. 40m wide):
Mesolithic/Early Neolithic ("Early Neolithic with strong Mesolithic traits") worked flints including 32 flakes, 2 blade core fragments, 6 blades, 1 "backed point", 1 "notch".

According to (S1) a number of additional finds were found at this site at the same time. These are listed as 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. This would appear to be a confusion with finds recorded under NHER 16389.

Flints identified by E. Rose and A. Lawson (NAU) and pottery by A. Lawson (NAU). Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1980.
Information from (S1). The Neolithic pottery from this site is noted in (S2).
Material from Context 2 (finder's Site 46c) previously recorded as NHER 16391.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES).

Late 1981. Fieldwalking.
Further finds from Context 2 (finder's Site 46c):
63 prehistoric flint flakes, 2 blades, 1 core rejuvenation flake, 2 small scrapers (all in fresh unpatinated grey flint). No date suggested.
1 prehistoric pottery sherd.
1 ?Early Saxon pottery sherd.
Identified and composed by A. Lawson (NAU), January 1982.
Information from (S1).
Previously recorded under NHER 16391.

Flints from this site were donated to Norwich Castle Museum in 1999 (NWHCM : 1999.1.24.4; listed as Neolithic). According to (S1) these were the finds recovered in late 1981, although it is possible that the collection includes some of the earlier material (being recorded as found between 1980 and July 1983).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 May 2014.

June-July 1983. Fieldwalking.
Additional finds from Context 1 (finder's Site 46b). Field ploughed for first time since above finds:
Prehistoric worked flints of similar date to earlier finds ("very early Neolithic with strong Mesolithic traits), including 4 cores, 41 blades, 153 flakes (including 2 struck across core platforms), 6 scrapers, 2 serrated flakes and 6 miscellaneous retouched flakes.
9 ?Early Neolithic pottery sherds (probably Early Neolithic bowl, as before).
1 Late Iron Age/Early Roman pottery sherd.
1 Roman bow brooch.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU) and T. Gregory (NAU). Compiled by T. Gregory (NAU), 27 July 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 May 2014.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
• LITHIC WORKING SITE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)
• FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

• BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• DEBITAGE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• HAMMERSTONE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• NOTCHED FLAKE? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• PICK (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• RETOUCHED BLADE? (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• SERRATED IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• SERRATED IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• ARROWHEAD? (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
• POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
• POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC?)
• POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
• POT (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
• BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD? to 650 AD?)
• THIMBLE? (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

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• Parish Summary: Honingham (Parish Summary)