NHER 3029 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic flint scraper

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Summary

A Mesolithic flint scraper was found in a strawberry field here in 1969.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG01NE
Civil Parish GREAT WITCHINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1969. Stray Find.
Found on field by [1] while hoeing strawberry runners:
1 Mesolithic flint scraper. Waisted waste flake with retouch on the end and sides to create an end scraper. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1969.648). Information from (S1) (see sketch on reverse). This discovery was reported in (S2).

This is possibly the 'miscellaneous implement' from a Walsis Farm "strawberry field" listed in (S3), although this is recorded as being in the possession of [1] (suggesting it is more likely to be a reference to a Mesolithic flint known to have been retained by the finder - see NHER 3030).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 01 NE 20.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic.
  • <S2> Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 11.
  • <S3> Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 206.
  • END SCRAPER (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

May 17 2016 8:30AM

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