NHER 1700 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced multi-period finds, Moor Farm (Bircham, poorly located)

Over twenty years before 1980. Stray finds.
A range of finds were recovered by [1] over many years on the lands of Moor Farm, Great Bircham. A number of these finds were shown to the Norwich Castle Museum in 1968 and identified by T. H. Mck. Clough. See NHER records 1694-1696, 1699, 1701 and 1706 for details of the objects from known sites. A small number of unprovenanced, mostly Mesolithic/Neolithic pieces were also donated to the NCM (NWHCM : 1968.79). These included 1 small axe roughout, 1 core, 1 scraper, 1 borer, 1 retouched blade, 2 flakes and a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 'button' scraper.
Information from (S1). These discoveries were also reported in (S2).

The material held by the Norwich Castle Museum was subsequently examined by R. Jacobi who identified:
1 ?Mesolithic flint ?tranchet axehead. Identification made difficult by edge damage.
1 ?Late Neolithic large fan-shaped scaper.
No date is specified for the remaining (presumably post-Mesolithic) pieces, listed as comprising:
1 core, 1 scale-flaked scraper, 1 awl on blade and 3 retouched flakes.
Information from (S3). No finds from this collection were listed in (S4).

In 1980 the whole of the collection retained by [1] was examined by F. Healy (NAU) in 1980, including the pieces previously seen by the NCM. She identified:
1 Palaeolithic pointed ovate handaxe. Also noted on (S5) and in (S6) and (S7), but no additional information given.
1 Mesolithic microlith (an obliquely-blunted point) and 4 very small blade cores.
Various flints of probable Neolithic/Bronze Age date, including 4 flake cores, 1 core fragment, 4 blade cores, 36 flakes, 7 blades, 14 scrapers (including those from NHER 1694 and NHER 1701), 1 awl, 2 piercers, 1 notch, 1 saw, 2 possible projectile points, 12 retouched flakes (including the knife from NHER 1699), 4 retouched 'chunks', 10 fabricators and 1 indeterminate core tool.
7 Neolithic flaked axes/adzes (including those from NHER 1694 and NHER 1696), 2 flaked axe/adze fragments (including one from NHER 1695), 3 partly polished axes/adzes (1 reflaked) and 2 partly polished axe/adze fragments.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead (Green Low type; NHER 1706) and 1 'waisted tool'.
1 Roman coin in indecipherable condition.
5 ?Roman pottery sherds.
1 ?Late Saxon Thetford ware pottey sherd.
14 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds, including 1 mottled Bellarmine-like stoneware sherd with a relief Tudor rose motif.
2 ?medieval tokens.
See detailed list in file.

See also notes on (S8) and map in file showing extent of Moor Farm.
E. Rose (NAU) 17 October 1980. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 December 2013.