NHER 5586 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flints

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Summary

Neolithic scrapers, hammerstones and other flint implements found in 1913. Other Neolithic flints found before 1929 may also come from this site.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Surface flint industry worked by J.S. Warburton south of road from Wilton to Weeting and west of Devil's Dyke.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

Flint implements, mainly scrapers and hammer stones, from a site discovered by Warburton in summer 1913, situated on a gentle slope about half mile north of the Little Ouse river, just west of Devil's Dyke where it crosses the road. Described as Neolithic by Warburton, R.A. Smith says there are 'undoubtedly traces of Palaeolithic cave man'.
Information from (S1).
R.J. Rickett (NAU) 5 April 1990

F. Healy (NAU) also lists 14 cores, of various types; 7 flakes, 7 scrapers, piercer, notch and waste in NCM with chalk patina, found by Warburton before 1929 from 'Wilton', no location; accession number is 153.929 rather than 152.929 as above; are both these collections from the same site?
E. Rose (NLA) 24 November 1993.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF8531 Article in Serial: Warburton, J. S. 1914. Some Implements of 'Cissbury Type' found in Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt IV (for 1913-14) pp 420-427. p 426.
--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF94190 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Records / Pastscape.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Object Types (5)

FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Hockwold cum Wilton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jul 21 2016 4:53PM