NHER 1488 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic axe/adze and ?Neolithic worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF63SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SNETTISHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Before 1969. Stray Find (Finder's Fields SN 403 and SN 404)
Various Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints found on surface by [1], including cores, an adze/pick fragment, a snapped blade and and waste flakes. These are held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1970.58). Information from (S1). The musem's records suggest that this collection also includes several scrapers.
Although no pieces from this collection are amongst the finds from Snettisham listed in (S2), the axe/adze is noted in R. Jacobi's records (S3), suggesting that this at least is probably Mesolithic. It does not appear that any particularly diagnostic Neolithic pieces are present and the assemblage is not listed in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 December 2013.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF87256 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic.
- <S2> SNF8776 Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20.
- <S3> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10348.
- <S4> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (4)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
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Record last edited
Apr 17 2023 3:49PM