NHER 19736 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic tranchet adze, Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints, Roman, and medieval to post-medieval finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG10NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Spring 1979. On drilled surface. Finder's site 115a. [1].
Found by [1] (finder's Site No. 115a):
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age chopping tool, 2 cores, 4 scrapers, 4 blades and 1 pick/roughout.
Identified and compiled by A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980.
Information from (S1).
A selection of the flints from this site (probably only the smaller pieces) were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.31). One of the core tools recovered was subsequently identified as Mesolithic by R. Jacobi, being described in (S2) as a Hassocks-type tranchet adze.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.
November 2020. Metal-detecting. [2].
2 Roman coins and 1 pottery sherd.
Medieval buckle.
Medieval/post-medieval buckle, purse bar, copper alloy vessel leg, copper alloy ring and lead conical standing weight.
1 post-medieval token.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
E. McDonald (HES), 14 February 2020 and P. Watkins (HES), 10 September 2023.
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (16)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CHOPPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- PICK (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 348 AD to 353 AD)
- RING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1100 AD to 1600 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1100 AD to 1600 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1450 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1440 AD to 1600 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1700 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1670 AD to 1670 AD)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Sep 12 2023 8:24PM