NHER 15027 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic arrowhead and flints, north side of Royal Hill

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Summary

Fieldwalking at this site in 1979 recorded a thin tanged flint arrowhead and forty flint flakes. All these finds date to sometime in the Neolithic period.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG11SW
Civil Parish RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May 1979. Fieldwalking.
Recovered by [1] from the ground surface on the north side of Royal Hill (finder's Site 2a):
1 Neolithic long, thin, tanged flint arrowhead with bifacial pressure flaking. See drawing (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.

August 1979. Fieldwalking.
Additional finds by [1] (finder's Site 2a).
40 Neolithic flint flakes, five 'chunks' and one core.
W. Milligan (NCM) 4 February 1982.

At least some of the finds collected by [1] at this site in 1979 were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1982.84.4).
P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1979. Drawing of a Neolithic flint tanged arrowhead. Card. 1:1.
  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • DEBITAGE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Oct 1 2014 1:18PM

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