Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19505 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic flint blades and Bronze Age shaft-hole adze |
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Summary
Several prehistoric objects have been recovered within Osier Carr, close to the site of a possible round barrow (NHER 3520). These finds include prehistoric flint flakes, Mesolithic flint blades and a broken Bronze Age shaft-hole adze, made of sandstone.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7510 2909 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72NE |
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| Parish: | ANMER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Various prehistoric finds recovered in Osier Carr:
28 August 1983. Stray Find.
On surface of disturbed ground where trees had been removed, presumably within the last few years in order to increase the area of arable. Ground under stubble but recent tree-cutting (not uprooting) had disturbed it:
Half a Bronze Age shaft-hole adze made of a fine-grained sandstone. Break is ancient. See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2).
Found by [1] in company with J. Wymer (NAU). See note in (S3).
This dolerite object is now held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1983.316) and was recently subjected to non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation (S4).
J. Wymer (NAU), 21 September 1983. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.
15 October 1995. Stray Find.
Found by [2] on surface on edge of NHER 3520:
2 Mesolithic blades, 1 broken. 2 waste flakes.
Previously recorded under NHER 3520
E. Rose (NLA) 1 December 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- ADZE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 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> | Illustration: Wymer, J. 1983. Drawing of a Bronze Age shaft-hole adze from Anmer. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Photograph: CXS 14 (site and finder). |
| <S3> | Unpublished Document: Wymer, J. J. Journal. No 7. p 121. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Williams-Thorpe, O., Webb, P. C. and Jones, M. C. 2003. Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol 30 pp 1237-1267. |
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