NHER 30155 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints

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Summary

Various prehistoric worked flints recovered during the 1950s and 1960s. These objects include Mesolithic microliths, Early Neolithic leaf arrowheads, Neolithic polished axes and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age knives and barbed and tanged arrowheads.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

Various objects recovered from area of old O.S fields 447, 448, 450 and 451(Curtis Field 70).

1954. Stray Find.
Found by F. Curtis at TL 7116 8785:
1 Mesolithic flint blade core (Coll. No. 678).
Information from (S1). Also described in (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2013.

1951-1957. Stray Find.
Curtis' catalogue lists a number of additional finds that were also found in this field (F36), but for which little additional information is given. The worked flints listed in (S1) and (S3) are as follows:
3 Mesolithic microliths.
1 Early Neolithic leaf arrowhead.
1 'harpoon barb' - probably a Neolithic transverse petit tranchet arrowhead.
2 Neolithic triangular arrowheads.
2 Neolithic ground axes.
2 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads. One identifiable from an NCM photograph as a serrated Conygar type.
6 'slug knives' - probably Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano-convex knives.
8 borers.
6 scrapers.
1 'saw'.
1 chisel. Found at TL 7104 8766. Has two central areas of polish on one face as if made from a ground axe. Identifed by F. Healy (NAU).
3 fabricators.
13 other implements.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2013.

1964. Stray Find.
Found by [1] at TL 7119 8788:
1 Early Neolithic flint leaf arrowhead. Information from (S4). Also listed in (S1). Previously recorded under NHER 5316.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 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> Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10261.
  • <S3> Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 266.
  • <S4> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton.
  • BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FABRICATOR (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SERRATED IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • CHISEL (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRIANGULAR ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Feb 15 2021 9:30AM

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