Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5368 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic, Bronze Age and Beaker finds and a post-medieval coin |
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Summary
Neolithic flints, including arrowheads and a flint knife, a copper alloy Bronze Age razor, and Beaker pottery and flints, found during fieldwalking and on the surface. Metal-detecting before 2018 recovered a post-medieval coin.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1967. Field 56.
Copper alloy razor, class 1b found on surface after ploughing at 6865 8760.
Information from [1].
(S1) in the Illustration Library. Context one.
1960. Context 2. [2].
Scatter over this area of field of Beaker sherds and flints, including at 6867 8774 barbed and tanged arrowhead and 2 petit tranchet derivatives.
F. Healy (NAU) also adds to these a polished flint knife at 6865 8751 and a triangular arrowhead at 6865 8772 (the latter found in 1956), a transverse arrowhead, 2 scrapers, 2 fabricators, an axe, 10 other implements, and two scrapers in KLM. Healy suggests the axe may be the same as that in KLM, site NHER 5313, but that is supposed to have been found in 1960.
20 October 1983. Context 3.
Scatter of flints at TL 6867 8768.
R. Silvester (NAU) October 1983.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Before July 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 4.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RAZOR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- COIN (17th Century - 1614 AD to 1630 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW AE. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Hockwold-cum-Wilton. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Unknown. 1967. Drawing of a Bronze Age razor.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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