NHER 13990 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic and Bronze Age flint implements

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Summary

A number of prehistoric flint objects have been recovered from the City of Norwich School playing field. These finds consist of a Neolithic polished flint axehead and scraper along with a Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG20NW
Civil Parish	NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

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Polished flint axehead and scraper from City of Norwich School playing field.
Held by NCM, previously part of Apling Collection.

Around 1942. Stray Find.
Found on school playing fields after explosion of German bomb.
Barbed and tanged arrowhead. See drawing (S1).
Information from City of Norwich School in 1950.
Information from old Norwich card via A. J. Walker (NCM) 12 April 1981.

Originally recorded in the parish of Eaton, now part of Norwich.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF98617 Illustration: Leinsdolf. 1950. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. Paper. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Beaker - 4000 BC to 1700 BC)

Object Types (3)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Eaton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Feb 12 2018 5:24PM