Record Details

NHER Number:19834
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic worked and burnt flints in Twenty Acre Plantation

Summary

Fieldwalking after tree stump removal in Twenty Acre Plantation recovered a Neolithic leaf arrowhead, a polished flint axehead, flint scrapers and flakes. Prehistoric burnt flints were also found.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 980 837
Map Sheet:TL98SE
Parish:HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1983. Found when fieldwalking after stump removal. In Twenty Acre Plantation.
Polished flint axehead at 9800 8380. See (S1).
Four scrapers and three flakes, one with secondary working.
Pot boilers.
Crude leaf arrowhead.
Notched flint flake - probably due to modern damage.
Information from [1].
Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU), October 1983.
W. Milligan (NCM) 22 August 1983.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT BOILER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1983. Sketch of a Neolithic polished axehead.. Paper. 1:1.

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