NHER 14740 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric and Neolithic flints

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Summary

A Neolithic arrowhead found before 1979, prehistoric potboilers and other flint implements have been found during fieldwalking, and a Neolithic axehead was found in a potato harvester in 1984.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Ordnance Survey field 604 (Curtis field 58).

Pre 1979.
Context 2; petit tranchet derivative labelled 'on a sandy ridge in the Fens' found approximately 683 875.
CUMAE unregistered.
Information from (S1).

9 March 1984.
Context 1; scatter flints and pot boilers all over field.
Concentrated in northwest corner.
Context 3 at 6821 8729.
Small concentration pot boilers, one or two fire cracked flakes on sand with gravel island.
Mediocre conditions (ridged not well weathered) 20m diameter.
R. Silvester (NAU).

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S3).

October 1984. Context 4.
Unknown spot in field as found on potato harvesting machine.
Stone axe, grey-green igneous rock, extremely weathered with much of original surface eroded away to depth of 2 to 3 mm. See drawing (S2)
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU). Information from R. Silvester (NAU)
Formerly numbered NHER 20856.
Sectioned as N277, Group I (Mounts Bay, Cornwall), information by W. Milligan (NCM).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW 23. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk.
  • <S2> Illustration: Wymer, J. 1984. Drawing of a Neolithic stone axehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S3> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

May 20 2020 8:57AM

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