NHER 17929 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flints, Bronze Age pottery sherds, Late Saxon/medieval weight and medieval harness mount

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Summary

Fieldwalking in this area during 1979-84 recovered a variety of prehistoric objects. Finds included part of a Neolithic polished axehead, over forty flint flakes, a possible prehistoric hammerstone and sherds of pottery that may have dated to the Bronze Age. Metal-detecting in 2018 recovered a Late Saxon/medieval weight and a medieval harness mount.

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Map sheet	TG10NW
Civil Parish	GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Autumn 1979. Fieldwalking. Drilled field surface. Finder's site 142a. [1]. Context 3 [2].
Forty two large flakes.
Two hammerstones?
Three cores.
Four flakes.
Six scrapers.
One knife?
Three sherds, possibly Early Bronze Age?
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU), 10 September 1980.
J. Wymer (NAU), 5 December 1983.

November 1981. Fieldwalking on drilled field. [1]. Context 3 [2].
Two flint flakes.
Finds held by NCM.
W. Milligan (NCM), 21 December 1982.

April 1983. Fieldwalking. [1]. Context 3 [2].
Further worked flints.
W. Milligan (NCM), 2 November 1983 (to NAU July 1984).

March 1984. Fieldwalking. [1]. Context 3 [2].
Fragment of polished flint axe.
Find held by NCM.
W. Milligan (NCM), 19 March 1984.

September-October 2018. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [3].
Late Saxon/medieval weight.
Medieval harness mount.
Information from PAS import.
H. Hamilton (HES), 4 December 2018. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 January 2019.

Associated Sources (1)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)

Object Types (10)

CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
HAMMERSTONE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
KNIFE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
WEIGHT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1400 AD)
HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 28 2020 2:35PM