Record Details
NHER Number: | 24948 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
Small excavation in area where many prehistoric worked flints had been recovered during surface collection (see NHER 2259). A small trench was excavated to investigate whether there was a subsoil source for this material. A small number of worked flints was recovered, including flakes, blades, a pot boiler and a possible core. No diagnostic implements were recovered and the assemblage was therefore not closely datable.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TM 0819 8630 |
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Map Sheet: | TM08NE |
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Parish: | BANHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
28 July 1988.
Small trial excavation conducted by J. J. Wymer (NAU) with Manpower Services Commission team to test whether numerous flints found on the surface of the plough soil by [1] related to a source in the sub soil.
Eight metre square transects were excavated, producing 9 prehistoric flint flakes, 4 blades, 1 possible core, 2 spalls and 1 'pot boiler' - all found in the ploughsoil. Nothing in weathered top of glacial till, or in the undecalcified till immediately below. These flints are not closely dateable, although it is possible that at least some were Mesolithic.
Finds identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU), see finds list and location plans in file.
Compiled by J. J. Wymer, (NAU) 22 November 1988. See notes in file. This work was reported in (S1) and the finds are now held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.327.2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 32. |
Related records
2259 | Part of: Mesolithic flint working site and multi-period prehistoric worked flints (Monument) |
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