NHER 4908 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age finds

Pre 1961 Stray Find.
The Parrott Collection includes a number of prehistoric objects that are recorded as having been found in the "field between [Heath] Farm and Summer Covert". The Parrott Collection was previously on loan to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1961.142) but is now housed at Weeting Primary School.

This finds include:
3 Mesolithic flint microliths (Coll. Nos 225B, 821 and 606). Described in (S1). One of these microliths was seen in 1947 and recorded on (S2) as a "backed microlith". This piece, previously recorded under NHER 4895, may be the unprovenanced microlith from Feltwell listed in (S3).

1 Neolithic fragmentary polished stone axe (Coll. No. 695C). See drawing (S4).
Petrology (N120): Group XX - see (S5).
Information from (S6). Also noted in (S7).

A number of other Parrott Collection flints with this provenance are listed in (S7):
5 Early Neolithic leaf-shaped flint arrowheads and 2 laurel leaves.
6 Neolithic (or later?) transverse petit tranchet derivative arrowheads, 3 oblique petit tranchet derivative arrowheads, 6 triangular arrowheads, 2 "projectile heads", 3 long-pointed piercers and 1 flaked discoidal knife.
32 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads and 14 plano-convex knives. See drawings of two unfinished plano-convex knives (S8) and (S9) - both reproduced in (S7).
Information from (S10).
See also (S11).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2014.