Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24913 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Mesolithic flints and later finds |
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Summary
A number of Mesolithic worked flints, including blades, microburins and a microlithic, found on road embankments. Burnt flints and sherds of prehistoric and medieval pottery were also recovered. The soil for these embankments was believed to have come from a nearby hill that was cut through by the new road.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6185 0080 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60SW |
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| Parish: | DENVER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 1979. Stray Find.
Various finds, the majority from two embankments on the new A10 re-alignment. The soil for these embankments had come from a sand and carstone hill which the new road was cut through. The finds found are as follows:
60 Mesolithic and undatable prehistoric flints, mostly blades (2cm-7cm long) but also scrapers, retouched flakes, microburins and 1 "fine" microlith. Some are patinated. See finder's drawings (S1).
6 ?prehistoric pottery sherds and 'pot boilers' [burnt flints].
Medieval pottery sherds.
See letter from finder in file.
Grid reference provided by finder.
A. Rogerson (NAU) 15 November 1988. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 August 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- MICROBURIN (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Drown, G. 1979. Drawings of Mesolithic flint blades and microlith from Denver. Paper. 1:1. |
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