Record Details

NHER Number:16897
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint tools

Summary

Between 1972 and 1973 a range of prehistoric flint objects, including a scraper and knife, were recovered from the field surface and metal-detecting in 2014 recovered a Neolithic/Early Bronze Age scraper.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 834 204
Map Sheet:TF82SW
Parish:ROUGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1972-3. Surface finds. From Seventeen Acres Field, Ponders Farm. [1].
Flint tools.
Collection not seen because not kept separate.
Scraper (27b), (40W), (302), (87Y).
'Miscellaneous tool' (1m), (75-8X).
Knife (9r).
E. Rose (NAU) 6 January 1981.

16 January 2014. Metal-detecting. [2].
Neolithic/Early Bronze Age end scraper.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 March 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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

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