NHER 24179 (Find Spot record) - Upper Palaeolithic or Mesolithic backed flint blade

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Summary

Upper Palaeolithic or Mesolithic backed flint blade found on the surface in 1973. This blade had been reworked at one end to create a burin (a form of borer).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish NORTH ELMHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1973 or 1974. Stray Find.
Exact findspot unknown; somewhere in fields east of railway, east of Spong Farm, west of parish boundary:
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic (or possibly Mesolithic) flint blade. Brown flint, backed along one edge and sharpened as burin at distal end. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.128.4).
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and compiled by A. Rogerson (NAU), 23 November 1987.
Information form (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 August 2013.

  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • BACKED BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • BURIN (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Aug 31 2014 5:30PM

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