NHER 5937 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic; Early Neolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints, Abbey Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL88SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Early 20th century. Stray Finds.
Abbey Farm was one of a number of areas in which W.G. Clarke collected prehistoric artefacts during the early 20th century (his Site 31). Information from (S1). It is not entirely clear why this record was mapped at this precise location and it should be noted that the site is described both on (S1) and in museum records as "Fields on Abbey Farm, Thetford"; suggesting this may have actually been quite an extensive collection area.
The Norwich Castle Museum's main W. G. Clarke collection includes a number of objects from his Abbey Farm site (NWHCM : 1926.32.31). These finds are listed by the museum simply as "Neolithic flint implements". It is recorded in (S2) that the assemblage includes 1 Early Neolithic laurel leaf and 1 long-pointed Neolithic piercer.
The Thetford Museum also holds a number of W. G. Clarkes's Abbey Farm finds:
1 Mesolithic flint blade core (THEHM : 1979.27.8). Described in (S3).
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic (probably the latter) petit tranchet derivative flint arrowhead (THEHM : 1975.294).
Various Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints, including 2 "worked flint flakes", originally recorded as Neolithic triangular knives (THEHM : 1978.280); 2 'horseshoe-shaped' flint scrapers (THEHM : 1978.296; THEHM : 1978.528); 1 end scraper (THEHM : 1978.555); 1 end scraper and 1 miscellaneous scraper (THEHM : 1978.571); 1 large scraper (THEHM : 1978.596); 3 borers (THEHM : 1979.130) and 1 triangular implement and 1 ?fabricator roughout (THEHM : 1979.131).
Information from museum records.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 July 2013 and 15 September 2014.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic.
- --- 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 SE 11 [2].
- <S1> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Thetford.
- <S2> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 680.
- <S3> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10375.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (14)
- BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC)
- BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BORER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Jul 6 2016 10:48AM