NHER 4737 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints and medieval buckle

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Summary

A prehistoric flint scraper was found here in 1953. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered prehistoric worked flints including a barbed and tanged arrowhead. Metal detecting found a medieval buckle and two Neolithic flint scrapers.

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1956. Context 1 at (see Notes).
Flint scraper.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

20 March 1987. Fenland fieldwalking over field, well weathered.
Odd flints but no obvious concentrations; includes a barbed and tanged arrowhead at 7153 9521.
R. Silvester (NAU), 23 March 1987.

FOR FULL DETAILS OF WARES, FLINT TYPES ETC SEE (S1).

1992. Found when using metal detector.
Context 3 at [1].
Medieval buckle. Finder retains.

Context 4 at [2].
Two flint scrapers (found 13 January).
P. Robins (NCM) says: Rounded end scraper on partly cortical flake bluish patination both faces. Thumbnail scraper with relatively steep retouch, slight bluish patination. Both probably Neolithic - second indicates Late Neolithic - but not clearly diagnostic.
W. Milligan (NCM) 9 August 1995.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF16054 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW DL. FENS.
--- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Methwold.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (4)

BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Sep 29 2023 11:28AM