Record Details

NHER Number:20678
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flints and medieval spur

Summary

Prehistoric flakes, a Neolithic scraper, and part of a medieval spur, made of copper alloy, have been found by metal detecting and field walking.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 28 99
Map Sheet:TM29NE
Parish:BROOKE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1984. Northeast of Brooke Lodge.
Found with metal detecting in stubble.
Copper alloy prick spur terminal fragment, early medieval, symmetrical two-holed terminal, see (S1).
Identified S. Margeson (NCM) 7 September 1984.
W. F. Milligan (NCM) 7 September

April 1987. Found in fieldwalking.
2 flint flakes and Neolithic scraper.
Flakes NCM 180.985(5)
Identified J. J. Wymer, (NAU)
W. Milligan (NCM) 22 May 1987

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SPUR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Publication: 1940. LMMC. Type B (ii).

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