NHER 28302 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flints, Neolithic axe and Roman finds

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Summary

Metal detecting and fieldwalking recovered several Mesolithic or Neolithic worked flints including a blade, a burin spall and a core. A Neolithic flint axehead, a Roman copper alloy knob from a box or a piece of furniture and a fragment of Roman Samian pottery were also found.

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Map sheet	TG01SW
Civil Parish	DEREHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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25 October 1989. Metal-detecting and fieldwalking.
Found south of Old Hall Farm and south south-west of spring:
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic flint blade, 1 spall, 1 'micro-core' and 2 flakes.
1 Neolithic small flint flaked axe.
1 Roman pottery sherd (battered Samian base) and 1 copper alloy knob from box or furniture. See (S1).
Flints identified by J. Wymer (NAU), 7 June 1990. Other objects identified by W. Milligan (NCM), 6 November 1990.
W. Milligan (NCM), 7 June 1990. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 November 2014.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF51667 Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (8)

BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
BURIN SPALL (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 25 2018 9:56AM