Record Details

NHER Number:23456
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint flakes and medieval pottery

Summary

Four prehistoric flint flakes (one potentially Palaeolithic) and a single sherd of medieval pottery were found here in 1987.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 145 960
Map Sheet:TM19NW
Parish:ASHWELLTHORPE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

8 March 1987. Stray Find.
Found by [1] on surface of ploughed field:
4 undatable prehistoric flint flakes. These include one large example that might just be Palaeolithic but is not quite diagnostic.
1 medieval pottery sherd (unglazed).
T. Gregory (NAU) 9 March 1987. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 February 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • 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)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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