Record Details

NHER Number:17172
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic flint pick

Summary

Fieldwalking here in 1981 recovered a Mesolithic flint pick.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 2392 9974
Map Sheet:TM29NW
Parish:SHOTESHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1981. Fieldwalking.
Found 425yds (389m) north-northeast of Church Farm, Hawes Green:
1 Mesolithic flint pick (finder's Coll. No. 3869). See sketch (S1).
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU) 18 March 1981 and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 17 March 1981. Information from (S2).
This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 January 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PICK (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S2>Illustration: Lawson, A. 1981. Sketch of a Mesolithic flint pick from Shotesham. Card. 1:1.
<S3>Article in Serial: Edwards, D. (NAU). 1983. Archaeological Discoveries for 1981 and 1982. CBA Group VI Bulletin. Series 2 No 28 pp 31-53. p 36.

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