NHER 55904 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Early Neolithic and ?Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF83SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BARSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
July 2011. Stray Find.
Scatter of worked flints identified at [1], in large field on the crest of a sandy ridge that runs northward parallel with the valley of the Burn to the west. The finds recovered included a "handful of carefully made flint scrapers" and a small amount of worked flint and were interpreted as representing an Early Neolithic activity/occupations site. A Mesolithic blade, an object described as a "Mesolithic throwing-spear point" and a Neolithic polished flint axe were also recovered.
The remainder of the field yielded a light scatter of flakes, a few Mesolithic blades and several rougher scrapers of probable Bronze Age date.
This information was communicated in a letter sent to the HES (S1).
A. Cattermole (HES), 5 August 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (7)
- BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- POINT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Jul 5 2014 7:05PM