Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24752 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic pick and other prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint pick was found at this location in 1988. A systematic survey of part of this field in 2013/2014 recovered two additional prehistoric worked flints.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0013 3672 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NW |
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| Parish: | GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1988. Stray Find.
Found at [1]:
1 Mesolithic flint pick. Very long (32cm). Recent damage at cutting end shows good quality, dark flint.
Patinated blue/white and in good, fresh condition apart from the recent break. No cortex on either face.
See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2) in file.
Identified and compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 25 August 1988.
This discovery was reported in (S3).
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 57).
Finds recovered at this location included:
1 prehistoric flint spurred piece and 1 retouched flake.
See report (S4) for further details.
Extented to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 16 August 2023.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- PICK (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1988. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Photograph: 1988. Photograph of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Black and white. Print. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 38. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015.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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