NHER 10579 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG50SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOPTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1972. Oak Farm.
Ploughland.
Partially worked backed knife, leaf arrowhead, seven multi-platformed cores. Two hollow scrapers, two key scrapers, two borers, nine side scrapers. Seventeen end scrapers, one core scraper, one core trimming flake.
Several pieces of worked flint which have no definite known purpose.
Good spread of secondary flakes with the occasional primary flakes used as scrapers.
Retained by Lowestoft Archaeology and Local History Society.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hopton on Sea.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 50 SW 12.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (3)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
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Record last edited
Aug 19 2025 1:52PM