Record Details
NHER Number: | 3030 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic flint flake |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint flake was found in a strawberry field here in 1970.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 090 184 |
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Map Sheet: | TG01NE |
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Parish: | GREAT WITCHINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1970. Stray Find.
Found by [1] while hoeing strawberries on Walsis Farm:
1 Mesolithic worked flint flake. Retained by finder. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
This is possibly the 'miscellaneous implement' from a Walsis Farm "strawberry field" listed in (S4), which is recorded as being in the possession of [1] (although a second Mesolithic flint was recovered from a Walsis Farm strawberry field by the same finder, this object was donated to the Norwich Castle Museum - see NHER 3029).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 01 NE 19. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Illustration: Clough, T. 1971. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint flake from Great Witchingham. Card. 1:1. |
<S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
<S3> | Serial: 1971. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1971. No 18. p 11. |
<S4> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 206. |
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