Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23906 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flints and medieval pottery |
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Summary
A prehistoric flint flake, a flint core dating to the Mesolithic or Early Neolithic period, and fragments of medieval pottery, found during field walking. Several concentrations of prehistoric pot boilers have also been noted.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8924 1182 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
26 March 1987. Old Ordnance Survey field L21. Field walking good conditions, ploughed.
Medieval sherd.
1 worked flint.
Lava fragment.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 6 August 1987.
1993. Fieldwalking. Context 10.
Casual find of two flints and a pottery sherd of indeterminate date at TF 8926 1181. The flints were subsequently examined by P. Robins (NCM) and identified as a Mesolithic or Early Neolithic single platform blade core and an undateable unmodified flake.
A. Rogerson (NLA) November 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 June 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Undated)
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- QUERN (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L21. AJGR. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile. |
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