Record Details

NHER Number:29610
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1993 recovered worked flint, a flint core and a Neolithic laurel leaf point.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 2023 7950
Map Sheet:TM27NW
Parish:BROCKDISH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

October 1992-December 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Field survey on proposed route of bypass (Fields 3441):
Sparse prehistoric worked flints including core.
1 Early Neolithic flint laurel leaf.
See report (S1) and plans and lists in file for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 31 March 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015.

March-May 1995. Watching Brief.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Observation and metal-detecting of stripped surface.
No archaeologically significant features or finds identified.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Report of Fieldwork on the A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 14.
<S2>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 115-123. p 117.
<S3>Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief on the Brockdish - Needham Bypass. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 134.

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