Record Details

NHER Number:40544
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric worked and burnt flints

Summary

Unsystematic fieldwalking at this site in 2004 recovered a number of ?prehistoric burnt flints and a Neolithic polished flint axehead. A ?Mesolithic flint blade and an undatable prehistoric flint flake were found here in 2010.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 09078 30921
Map Sheet:TG03SE
Parish:BRISTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 9 June 2004. Unsystematic fieldwalking.
Found at [1] (Context 1):
1 Neolithic polished flint axe.

Found at [2] (Context 2):
15 ?prehistoric burnt flints.
Previously recorded as NHER 40542.

Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
E. Darch (NLA), 17 June 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

Before 3 June 2010. Stray find.
Found at [3] (Context 3):
1 ?Mesolithic flint blade fragment.
Previously recorded as NHER 54127.

Found in general area of field:
1 undatable prehistoric ?retouched flint flake.
Previously recorded as NHER 54128.

Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
P. A. Robins (NCM), 21 June 2010. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC?)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

Related records - none

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