NHER 14595 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints, field between chalk pit and coursing ground

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Summary

During the 20th century a number of prehistoric objects were recovered in an area recorded as the "field between chalk pit and coursing ground", which is believed to have been this location. These finds include a Mesolithic flint microlith; Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowheads and laurel leaves; Neolithic or later flint arrowheads and other implements and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowheads and plano-convex knives.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL79SW
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Full Description

Pre 1961. Stray Find.
The Parrott Collection includes a number of prehistoric objects that are recorded as having been found in the "field between chalk pit and coursing group", which is believed to be a reference to this location. The Parrott Collection was previously on loan to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1961.142) but is now housed at Weeting Primary School.

Finds with this provenance include 1 Mesolithic flint microlith (Coll. No. 738a) that is described in (S1). A number of later prehistoric worked flints are listed in (S2), including:
5 Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowheads and 3 laurel leaves.
8 Neolithic (or later?) transverse petit tranchet derivative arrowheads, 1 oblique petit tranchet derivative arrowhead, 3 triangular arrowheads, 3 long-pointed awls, 1 long-pointed piercer and 1 quadrangular flaked discoidal knife.
4 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads and 4 plano-convex knives.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 September 2014.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10162.
<S2> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. pp 161-162.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (10)

MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
AWL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BORER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
DISCOIDAL KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
TRIANGULAR ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 18 2014 10:10AM