NHER 14648 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Three Neolithic flint leaf arrowheads were found here before 1978. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked and burnt flints and fragments of medieval pottery. A Roman penannular brooch was found on the tines of an agricultural machine. A Neolithic flint scraper and a Beaker period barbed and tanged flint arrowhead was found here in 1991.

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Map sheet	TL69SE
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Pre 1978. Curtis field 92 = Context 3 at approximately 698 917.
Three leaf arrowheads.
Information from F. Healy (NAU) from Curtis's Catalogue.

One of these arrowheads was passed to the Range Collection, and there is a leaf arrowhead in the collection of [1] with this grid reference also.
Information from F. Healy (NAU).

20 February 1985. Fenland Fieldwalking.
General scatter of flint over field = Context 1 (FWL CG).

Context 2 at 6984 9164.
Scatter pot boilers and flints over area of about 20m diameter. On chalk drift plateau with some charamarl on top adjacent
to hollow. FWL CF. Also medieval sherds.

Both finds from ploughed but partially weathered soil.
R. Silvester (NAU), 23 February 1985.

1984/1985. Found on tine of agricultural machine. At unknown location in this field.
Copper alloy ornament, rectangular section, bent over terminals. Diameter about 3.4cm. Identified as Penannular brooch,
Fowler type C, 1st century BC to 2nd/3rd century AD. Compare with Colchester ornament, (S1) which is a similar size and style.
See (S2).
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
R. Silvester (NAU), 31 December 1985.

Before 1991. Casual find.
Flint scraper.
W. Milligan (NCM), 14 January 1992

1991. Context 4 at TL 6978 9174.
Barbed and tanged arrowhead (one barb and tang missing). Finder's Collection No 261.
See (S3).
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 17 July 1991.

For full details of wares and flint types etc. see (S4).

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF15044 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL CF. FENS.
--- SNF15045 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL CG. FENS.
--- SNF9515 Photograph: CZK 5-9.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF5607 Article in Serial: Crummy, N.. 1983. The Roman Small Finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9.. Colchester Archaeology. No 4618. Fig 42. 1643.
<S2> SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
<S3> SNF51667 Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
<S4> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)

Object Types (7)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 13 2019 9:50AM