NHER 24272 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint implement and Middle Bronze Age rapier or dirk fragments

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Summary

Fieldwalking at this location in 1987 recovered a single prehistoric flint. Metal-detecting in 2015 recovered fragments of a Middle Bronze Age rapier or dirk

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF60NE
Civil Parish SHOULDHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

16 November 1987. Fenland fieldwalking. Good conditions, well weathered sandy soil, young cereal.
One single flint found. Site SHD AY.
Find held by NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU) 16 November 1987.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.

June-July 2015. Metal-detecting. [1].
Middle Bronze Age rapier or dirk fragments(S1) - non-joining but probably from the same object.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 9 November 2020 and P. Watkins (HES), 8 January 2024.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SHD AY. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age rapier or dirk. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

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Record last edited

Jan 10 2024 6:18PM

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