NHER 21307 (Monument record) - Post medieval flint working site

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Summary

Fieldwalking collected a large number of worked flint flakes. Some of these may be prehistoric. In one area a small number of post medieval gun flint blades were recorded. These were produced when gun flints were made on the site. No features typically associated with flint mining were identified on imagery from a recent lidar survey.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL89SW
Civil Parish LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Autumn 1984. Fieldwalking.
Survey by [1] of Forestry Commission Plantation T.71 after felling of trees.
Around 75 to 100 crude flakes, some large, presumably prehistoric. Also a small number of proximal and distal segments of gun flint blades. Latter at TL 8225 9084.
Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU).
See report (S1) for further details.
J.J.Wymer (NAU), 29 April 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2015.

April 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
No features typically associated with flint mining were identified on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S2).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3rd April 2017.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Unpublished Report: Bailey, D. 1985. Fieldwalking Report - "Prehistoric Survey". Forestry Commission Plantation T.71.
  • <S2> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUN-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 3 2017 11:02AM

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