NHER 12710 (Find Spot record) - Later prehistoric worked flints

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Summary

Prehistoric worked flints, mostly of probable Neolithic date, including leaf arrowheads, scrapers and three axeheads were found here in the latter half of the 20th century.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL69SE
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1950 to 1956.
F. Healy (NAU) records in the Curtis Collection with the same grid reference:
Two leaf arrowheads.
Four 'harpoon barbs'.
One triangular tool.
Three scrapers.
One borer.
Two flaked axes - possibly miniature, one 6cm (2 1/2 inches) x 4.5cm (1 3/4 inches), the other 5.7cm (2 1/4 inches) x 4.5cm (1 3/4 inches).
E. Rose (NLA) 20 September 1993.

1977. On ploughed surface.
Small polished stone axehead, 9.7cm long, 4.8cm maximum width.
Via NCM.
See (S1).

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF79104 Illustration: Unknown. 1977. Drawing of a Neolithic flint axehead.. Card. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Object Types (5)

FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
MINIATURE OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 13 2019 9:49AM