NHER 5720 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flints, Bronze Age flints and Iron Age pottery sherds, Two Mile Bottom Common
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL88NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1907. Stray finds.
Casual finds of Neolithic flints. Long, narrow flint flakes, scrapers and discoidal implements.
Also a bronze lid found on 2 September 1907, assumed by W.G. Clarke to be Iron Age, but R.R. Clarke disputes this.
See (S1) and (S2) for further information.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
1919. Stray finds - F N Haward's site XXI.
Neolithic worked flints including 32 convex scrapers, 7 concave scrapers, a diagonal-ended scraper, 10 axes of various types, 4 points, 2 discs, 2 borers, a fabricator, a knife, cores, hammerstones, flakes and pot-boilers.
Information from (S3).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 15 July 2008.
1979. Stray find.
Flint scraper found.
W. Milligan (NCM), 22 August 1980.
Easter 1980. Stray find in area where trees have been felled, location [1].
Iron Age pottery sherd.
W. Milligan (NCM), 22 August 1980.
Pre-May 1981. Stray finds, main concentration at [2], one arrowhead from [3].
Worked flints including a hammerstone, a struck Levallois core, a blade, three flakes and 13 scrapers.
Many pieces are exceptionally large, and most date from the Neolithic or Bronze Age.
See list in file.
F. Healy (NAU), 29 May 1981.
1982. Stray find.
Neolithic or Bronze Age flint side scraper.
A. Lawson, 6 October 1982.
1986. Stray finds.
Two oblique Neolithic arrowheads, a broken flaked axe and a thick blade, apparently used as a punch.
See list and drawings (S1) in file.
J.J. Wymer (NAU), 18 December 1987.
Associated Sources (11)
- --- SNF97838 Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
- --- SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
- --- SNF87256 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic.
- --- SNF99172 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Thetford St Peter.
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Thetford.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 NE 8.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF5260 Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 126f.14. 2.
- <S2> SNF1367 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1908. Some Recent Finds in Norfolk. Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany. Second Series Pt 3 pp 94-107. p 98.
- <S3> SNF70467 Article in Serial: Hewitt, H. D. 1915. A Neolithic Site near Thetford. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt I (for 1914-15) pp 42-45.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (18)
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEVALLOIS FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT BOILER (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- VESSEL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)
- VESSEL (Undated)
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Record last edited
Jul 5 2016 1:13PM