NHER 30147 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic microlith and Neolithic arrowhead

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Summary

A Mesolithic flint microlith and a Neolithic triangular arrowhead were recovered from this field between 1956 and 1961.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1956. Stray Find.
Found by F. Curtis at TL 6775 8866:
1 Neolithic triangular flint arrowhead. Possibly unfinished Ballyclare barbed and tanged.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU). Information from (S1). Grid reference from (S1), though given as Ordnance Survey 43 whereas field is Ordnance Survey 641. Previously recorded as NHER 30146.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 November 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 November 2013.

1961. Stray Find.
Found by F. Curtis at TL 6784 8846:
1 Mesolithich microlith (Coll. No. 35). Obliquely blunted point.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU). Information from (S1). Object photographed by NCM (S2).
E. Rose (NLA) 24 November 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 November 2013.

  • <S1> Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78. Microfiche.
  • <S2> Photograph: NCM. Film 2, Frame 20.
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • TRIANGULAR ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Nov 9 2013 11:03AM

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