Record Details

NHER Number:28431
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:?Mesolithic, Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints

Summary

In 1990 and 1991 a number of worked flints were recovered in a garden at this location, including a possible Mesolithic microlith; a fragmentary Neolithic flaked axehead and a number of flakes.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 2354 0205
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:STOKE HOLY CROSS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

7 September 1990. Stray Find.
Found by [1] while gardening:
15 undatable prehistoric flint flakes, some with retouch.
1 Mesolithic flint ?microlith.
2 Neolithic flint flakes.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU). Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 19 July 1990.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.

January 1991. Stray Find.
Found by [1]:
4 undated prehistoric flint flakes.
1 Neolithic flaked flint axehead (butt end).
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM), see note in file [2].
P. Watkins (HES), 10 August 2016.

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

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • MICROLITH? (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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