NHER 32830 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic to Bronze or Iron Age period worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1997 recovered a number of prehistoric worked flints and a fragment of worked bone. The flints include pieces likely to be from a Mesolithic/Early Neolithic blade-making tradition, although some pieces appears to have made/reused during the later prehistoric period.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF70SW
Civil Parish OXBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May 1997. Fieldwalking. [1].
Multi-period prehistoric flint assemblage recovered. These appear to represent an early (?Mesolithic or Early Neolithic) blade-making tradition with later (?Bronze Age/Iron Age) prehistoric reuse of some items. A small fragment of worked bone (from skull?) was also found. See notes in secondary file by P. Robins (NCM).
Comp. A.Rogerson (NLA), 12 June 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 April 2013.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
  • END SCRAPER (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • WORKED OBJECT (Undated)

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Record last edited

Jun 1 2018 3:28PM

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