NHER 14600 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints, Water Pit Breck (Feltwell, poorly located)

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Summary

During the 20th century a number of prehistoric worked flints were recovered in a field known as "Water Pit Breck", the exact location of which is unknown (probably somewhere in the vicinity of Heath Farm). These finds include a Mesolithic flint microlith; Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowheads and laurel leaf and a range of Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint arrowheads, knives and other implements.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Pre 1961 Stray Find.
The Parrott Collection includes a number of prehistoric objects that are recorded as having been found in "Water Pit Breck". The Parrott Collection was previously on loan to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1961.142) but is now housed at Weeting Primary School.

These finds include 1 Mesolithic microlith (Coll No. 544c), which is described in (S1). A number of later prehistoric worked flints with this provenance are listed in (S2), including:
2 Early Neolithic leaf arrowheads and 1 laurel leaf.
1 Neolithic (or later?) transverse petit tranchet derivative arrowhead, 5 triangular arrowheads, 1 long-pointed piercer and 1 flaked discoidal knife.
14 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads, 1 tanged arrowhead and 6 plano-convex knives.
Information from (S3).

The majority of the Parrott Feltwell finds were collected in the vicinity of Heath Farm (TL 7415 9158) and it is therefore likely that Water Pit Breck was somewhere in this area.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2014.

Associated Sources (3)

<S1> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10394.
<S2> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 163.
<S3> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (9)

MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 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)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Mar 4 2016 12:20PM