NHER 22973 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic and Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking in this area during 1986 recovered Mesolithic flint blades and a number of other Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

15 June 1986. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] east of Hall Farm:
2 Mesolithic blades
Mesolithic/Neolithic flints.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 2 September 1986.
Information from (S1).
These finds were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.83).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.


See NHER 16753 for details of an excavated Mesolithic flint working site a short distance to the south-east.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 18 February 2009.

  • --- Article in Serial: 1987. Archaeological Discoveries for 1986. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 32 pp 42-79. p 56.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 29 2020 8:55AM

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