Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24828 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Upper Palaeolithic flint blades and undated wooden structure, grounds of Woodview |
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Summary
In 1988 an undated wooden structure and several prehistoric worked flints were found during excavations for a pond. Subsequent investigations by J. J. Wymer recovered a small number of additional flint. The majority of the flints were Late Upper Palaeolithic, including complete and broken long blades (one retouched at one end) and a core tablet. A single sherd of medieval pottery was also found.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8085 9459 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89SW |
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| Parish: | ICKBURGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1988. Stray Find.
Found during hand digging of pond in garden. 12 m north of ditch, 0.70 m+ below surface beneath water level in organic silt (Context 1):
Worked flints including 2 long blades, 1 cortical blade, 1 blade segment and 1 flake.
1 pottery sherd (sagging base pot).
Sample of wooden structure about 8m long, with dowel and peg.
Found on garden surface (Context 2):
2 ochreous stained flint flakes, sharp condition.
From silt (layer 2), exposed by trial section cut by J. Wymer (NAU), 18 August 1988 (Context 3):
3 flint flakes.
1 'pot boiler'.
See file for rough plans and sections, and sketches of the worked wood recovered from the pond (S1). According to F. Pryor the wood is probably ash.
Original information compiled by J. J. Wymer (NAU), 21 November 1988.
These discoveries were first reported in (S2). The flints recovered were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum but appear to still be unregistered. Three of the flint blades from Context 1 are listed in (S3) as Later Upper Palaeolithic long blades. The flints held by the Norwich Castle were subsequently examined by R. Jacobi and his records (S4) contain detailed descriptions of the material from Context 1 and Context 3. Although the total number of flints recorded is the same, the objects themselves are Jacobi's records (S4) list the same number of flints, these are listed somewhat differently:
Context 1:
1 Upper Palaeolithic blade with 'nosed scraper/'bec' at distal end, 1 blade, 1 mesial blade fragment, 1 proximal portion of blade and 1 flake.
Context 3:
1 Upper Palaeolithic core table ("matches well with the 'long blade' material").
2 post-Palaeolithic flint flakes.
2 burnt flints.
1 naturally fractured flint.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 April 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- STRUCTURE (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- WORKED OBJECT (Undated)
- BLADE (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 Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- CORE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- FLAKE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1988. Sketches of wooden structure from Woodview, Ickburgh. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 39. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Robins, P. and Wymer, J. 2006. Late Upper Palaeolithic (Long Blade) Industries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 86-95. p 94. |
| <S4> | Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 242; 243; 6948; 6949. |
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