NHER 5345 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age finds (Hockwold cum Wilton, poorly located)

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Summary

Various prehistoric objects known to have been found in Hockwold during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additional information regarding provenance. These finds include a Mesolithic/Neolithic flint flake, several Neolithic axeheads and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowheads.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Various prehistoric objects known to have been found in Hockwold during the late 19th century or early 20th century but with little or no additional information regarding provenance.

FINDS IN THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM

1954. Stray Find.
Found at Hockwold "in garden" by [1]:
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic large flint flake. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1957.130). Noted in (S1).
Previously recorded as NHER 30143.

FINDS IN OTHER MUSEUMS

About 1915. Stray Find.
1 Neolithic "celt with taper butt, refashioned from large ground example". Donated to the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and noted in (S2). Information from (S3).

OTHER FINDS

Also three other polished axeheads and two barbed and arrowheads.
F. Healy (NAU).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 September 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78. Appendices (microfiche).
  • <S2> Article in Serial: 1917. Purchases made by the curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with the grant from the Council of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society for 1915. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol XX (New Series Vol XIV) p 14. p 14.
  • <S3> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton.
  • FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Apr 6 2016 4:02PM

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