NHER 22524 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period prehistoric worked flints and Beaker pottery
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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
January 2000. Fieldwalking.
Several workedflints found by [1] at approximately TL 684 884:
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint backed blade. Possibly utilised as a punch? See sketch (S1). A group of similar artefacts from Denmark and Holland described in (S2) have however been interpreted as strike-a-lights for use with pyrites. Since the present artefact is heavily patinated and associated with unpatinated Early Neolithic material it may well be of the date suggested.
1 Early Neolithic laurel leaf
2 ?Neolithic scrapers.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery sherd (Beaker, small).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions and notes in file. These discoveries were reported in (S3).
K. Hinds (NLA) 31 May 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 November 2013.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF92089 Illustration: Robins, P. 2000. Sketch of a Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint backed blade (?punch). Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF90017 Article in Serial: Stapert, D. and Johansen, L. 1999. Flint and pyrite: making fire in the Stone Age. Antiquity. Vol 73 No 282 pp 665-677.
- <S3> SNF86491 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2001. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 2000. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt IV pp 694-707. p 695.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (4)
- BACKED BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)
- LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
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Record last edited
Jan 11 2022 2:37PM