NHER 24752 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic pick and other prehistoric worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG03NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1988. Stray Find.
Found at [1]:
1 Mesolithic flint pick. Very long (32cm). Recent damage at cutting end shows good quality, dark flint.
Patinated blue/white and in good, fresh condition apart from the recent break. No cortex on either face.
See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2) in file.
Identified and compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 25 August 1988.
This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.
July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 57).
Finds recovered at this location included:
1 prehistoric flint spurred piece and 1 retouched flake.
See report (S4) for further details.
Extented to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 16 August 2023.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
- <S1> SNF91881 Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1988. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF91880 Photograph: 1988. Photograph of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Black and white. Print.
- <S3> SNF87170 Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 38.
- <S4> SNF102393 Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015. Archaeological Non-intrusive Survey Report: Geophysical Survey by Magnetometry, Fieldwalking and Metal Detecting for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Electrical Connection, Norfolk. Allen Archaeology Ltd. AAL 2014060.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (3)
- BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- PICK (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
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Record last edited
Aug 16 2023 11:22AM