Record Details

NHER Number:21260
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic/Neolithic flint pick and medieval to post-medieval metal objects

Summary

A Mesolithic or Neolithic flint pick was found in this field in 1982. Subsequent metal-detecting in 2011 recovered a medieval/post-medieval padlock and a post-medieval buckle.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 99 36
Map Sheet:TF93NE
Parish:GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1982. Stray Find.
Surface find by [1], on "David Load's by Bale Wood", at approximately [2]:
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic long flaked flint pick. 22.5cm long, cutting end removed by recent fracture. Patinated yellow over brown staining. See drawing (S1).
Identified and compiled by J. J. Wymer (NAU), 25 February 1985.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.

Before 29 September 2012. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval/post-medieval padlock.
1 post-medieval buckle.
Identified by A. Rogerson (HES), see list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 19 June 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.

July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 58).
An undatable burnt flint was the only find recovered at this location.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 August 2023.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BURNT FLINT (Undated)
  • PICK (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC?)
  • PADLOCK (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Drawing of a Mesolithic/Neolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S3>Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015. Archaeological Non-intrusive Survey Report: Geophysical Survey by Magnetometry, Fieldwalking and Metal Detecting for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Electrical Connection, Norfolk. Allen Archaeology Ltd. AAL 2014060.

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