Record Details
NHER Number: | 39703 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic flint blade |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint blade segment with retouch or use wear was found in the garden of 3, The Paddocks.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 97583 17542 |
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Map Sheet: | TF91NE |
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Parish: | BEETLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 20 July 2003. Casual Find.
A struck flint was recovered from the garden of 3 The Paddocks.
Portable Antiquities Record identified:
Mesolithic flint blade segment with retouch/use wear. Segment of blade in pale grey speckled flint, damaged at the proximal end with loss of striking platform and snapped transversely at the distal end. Fine steep retouch along most of the remaining left lateral edge, and worn. The right edge has damage, probably accidental.
See (S1). This find was reported in (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 September 2003.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- RETOUCHED BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
<S1> | Unpublished Document: Portable Antiquities Scheme. Portable Antiquities Database sheet. |
<S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2003. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2003. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt III pp 563-573. p 564. |
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