Record Details

NHER Number:13976
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic to Bronze Age worked flints

Summary

In 1978 Neolithic to Bronze Age worked flints including flakes, blades and a core were recovered as stray finds. Metal-detecting in 2019 recovered Roman coin and a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy rivet.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 12 08
Map Sheet:TG10NW
Parish:MARLINGFORD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1978. On ploughed surface. [1].
Flint flakes.

Spring 1978. Finder's field 125.
Twelve flakes, two blades, one scraper.
All Neolithic/Bronze Age types.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980.

To NAU from NCM November 1983.
Are these two entries really different?

September-October 2019. Metal-detecting. [2].
2 Roman coins.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy rivet.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 November 2019.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
  • RIVET (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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