Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35610 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Possible Neolithic flint working site |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered Neolithic worked flints including cores, flakes and scrapers. In one area flints from long-blade production were recorded. Some of these may derive from the post medieval production of gunflints.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8298 9547 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89NW |
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| Parish: | ICKBURGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March to May 2000. Fieldwalking for STANTA survey. Fieldwork No: O12.
Seventeen Neolithic worked flints. See P.A. Robins' (NAU) description in file.
No ceramic finds.
See (S1) and notes in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 July 2000.
2000/2001. Fieldwalking. STANTA fieldwork no. O12.
Further flints (some of which might possibly be from post medieval gunflint production).
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 June 2001.
Site O2 (12) in (S2).
In one area two retouched flakes, eleven blade-like flakes, eight flakes, three cores; an attempt at long-blade production, possibly modern waste but an odd location.
M. Dennis (NLA), 30 March 2006.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Davison, A. and Cushion, B. 2005. An Archaeological Survey of the Stanford Training Area, 2000-2. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt IV pp 602-616. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Davison, A. 2002. STANTA ILMP Arable Survey. June. |
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