NHER 14624 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
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.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 168.
- <S2> SNF6350 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> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10205; 10234.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (10)
- 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)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Mar 13 2019 9:49AM