NHER 20325 (Find Spot record) - ?Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL68NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
22 March 1984. Fenland Survey fieldwalking.
Well weathered plough soil. On south slope of island. Moderate spread of flints with sparse 'pot boilers' becoming common to south-west. Max dimensions 37m NE/SW x 31 NW/SE. The worked flints were predominantly Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, several blades (including two fine, slender examples) were potentially Mesolithic.
For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). Finds now held by Norwich Castle Museum.
R. Silvester (NAU) March 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2013.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- <S2> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (6)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- CORE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
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Record last edited
Jul 11 2017 9:35AM