Record Details

NHER Number:28430
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint blade core

Summary

In 1987 a Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint blade core was recovered from a garden in this area.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2545 0213
Map Sheet:TG20SE
Parish:STOKE HOLY CROSS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1987. Stray Find.
Found by [1] whilst gardening (after new house built in market garden):
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic narrow long blade core with double cresting. 33mm long. Around 8000BC. This discovery was reported in (S1).
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU), 11 September 1990 and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 1 August 1990.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE CORE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1992. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1991. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt III pp 362-370. p 363.

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