NHER 14624 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints

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Summary

Various prehistoric worked flints found during 1950s and 60s. These include several Mesolithic microliths, Neolithic and Beaker period arrowheads, and a Neolithic axehead.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SE
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1953-1967. Stray Find.
Various objects recovered by F. Curtis (Curtis Field 13).

Found between 1953 and 1960:
2 Mesolithic 'microliths'.
2 Neolithic leaf arrowheads.
1 Neolithic oblique petit tranchet derivative arrowhead ('harpoon barb').
1 Neolithic flint axehead.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife ('slug knife').
2 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads (including a serrated Conygar type identified from sketch).
2 scrapers.
1 fabricator.
12 other 'implements'.
Information via F. Healy (NAU), from Curtis Catalogue. See (S1) and (S2).

Found in 1967:
1 Mesolithic microlith (Type 3d, identified from NCM photograph).
Information via F. Healy (NAU), from Curtis Catalogue. See (S2). Noted in (S3).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 October 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 168.
  • <S2> Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78. Appendix 8 (microfiche).
  • <S3> Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10205; 10234.
  • FABRICATOR (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 13 2019 9:49AM

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