NHER 5182 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric finds

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Summary

Prehistoric worked flint flakes, Neolithic flint arrowheads, a Bronze Age axe hammer, Neolithic flint sickle, Neolithic flint fabricator and part of a prehistoric sandstone quern were found here. Also a long, narrow Neolithic polished axehead.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL69SE
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1963. [1].
A few worked flint flakes found on surface. Flint arrowheads from this field or next to east.
E. B. Green (NCM).

At this grid reference (but stated to be approximate) F. Healy (NAU) notes a stone axe hammer in Younge collection. No similar object recorded on adjacent sites; one presumes it is not the same as NHER 5185 Context 5 as that was identified by F. Healy (NAU) as a stone axe rather than axe hammer.
E. Rose (NLA) 20 September 1993.

Similarly at this grid reference F. Healy (NAU) notes a fragment of a single piece sickle, a fabricator and a sandstone quern fragment in the Secker collection.

Before 7 October 1993. Stray find.
Polished axehead, Neolithic. Long, narrow, bifacially polished at cutting edge, extending to one third of the length on one face (S1).
See drawing in secondary file.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent mapped at [2].
E. Whitcombe (NLA), 12 February 2010. Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 15 November 2019.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Feltwell.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF100316 Illustration: Robins, P. 1993. Drawing of a Neolithic polished axe. Find Illustration. Paper. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (6)

QUERN (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SICKLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
AXE HAMMER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Dec 3 2019 10:15AM