Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19504 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and later prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
A number of prehistoric worked flints were found here in 1983, including a Palaeolithic flake and Mesolithic cores and blades.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 752 292 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72NE |
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| Parish: | ANMER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
28 August 1983. Stray Find:
Worked flints found by J. J. Wymer (NAU) on surface of stubble field:
1 Palaeolithic flint flake, probably struck with soft hammer, slightly rolled and stained with later (not recent) damage.
2 ?Mesolithic cores and 2 microblades.
2 undatable prehistoric cores, 3 scrapers, 12 flakes and 3 blades (1 proximal
end).
Presumably ploughed up from underlying gravel.
Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1983.314).
Identified and originally compiled by J. J. Wymer (NAU), 19 September 1983. Information from (S1).
These discoveries were reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 December 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
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)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1984. Archaeological Discoveries for 1983. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 29 pp 17-33. p 24. |
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