NHER 53718 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period worked flints and metal objects

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Summary

Metal-detecting between 2009 and 2012 recovered ?Mesolithic, Mesolithic/Early Neolithic, Early Neolithic, Neolithic and undatable Late Prehistoric worked flints and Middle Bronze Age to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Middle Bronze Age spearhead; a Middle to Late Saxon strap-end; a medieval buckle and strap-end and a post-medieval furniture fitting and lead bale seal.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TG31SW
Civil Parish	WOODBASTWICK, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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September-October 2009. Metal-detecting.
1 ?Mesolithic flint blade.
1 Early Neolithic flint blade.
1 Neolithic flint flake core.
1 undatable Late Prehistoric flint scraper and 2 flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 26 November 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 May 2014.

October-November 2011. Metal-detecting.
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic flint blade.
1 Middle-Late Saxon strap end.
1 medieval buckle.
1 post-medieval furniture escutcheon plate and lead Russian bale seal.
Flint identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other objects by S. Ashley (HES). See list and descriptions in file.
S. Ashley (HES), 22 November 2011.

April-May 2012. Metal-detecting.
1 Middle Bronze Age socketed spearhead (S1) (S2).
1 medieval strap-end.
Identified by S. Ashley (HES), see list and descriptions in file.
S. Ashley (HES), 28 May 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 May 2014.

September-October 2013. Metal-detecting. [1].
Undated unidentified silver object.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 January 2014.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
<S2> SNF83969 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2012. Drawing of an incomplete Middle Bronze Age copper alloy socketed spearhead. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (9)

Object Types (13)

BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
STRAP END (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (18th Century - 1795 AD to 1795 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 12 2025 9:23AM