NHER 28222 (Find Spot record) - Late Upper Palaeolithic and undated prehistoric worked flints

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Summary

Prehistoric flints including flakes, blades, scrapers and a hammerstone found in 1990. It is likely that the blades, two crested flakes and a long end scraper are Late Upper Palaeolithic. The remainder of the assemblage was not closely datable.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL78NW
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

3 December 1990. Stray Find.
Various prehistoric worked flints found on surface of overgrown arable land by [1]:
1 hammerstone.
19 flakes.
4 blades.
2 crested flakes.
10 spalls.
1 thumbnail scraper.
2 scrapers.
1 long end scraper (retouch on bulbar end).
Also fragment of very mineralised shaft bone?

This site is very close to Curtis's Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade site (NHER 5307). Fresh condition and the brown flint of much of the material suggests it may have originated from the same level. Identified by J. Wymer (NAU). The blades, crested flakes and long end scraper are listed are Late Upper Palaeolithic in (S1).

A. Rogerson (NAU) 4 January 1991. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 November 2013.

  • <S1> Article in Serial: Robins, P. and Wymer, J. 2006. Late Upper Palaeolithic (Long Blade) Industries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 86-95. p 93.
  • DEBITAGE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)

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Record last edited

Jul 18 2023 7:47AM

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