NHER 58856 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced possible Early Neolithic flint laurel leaf, Cley Road (Beachamwell, poorly located)

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Summary

A possible Early Neolithic flint laurel leaf recorded as being found somewhere near Cley Road, Beachamwell. This object is part of a private collection of prehistoric worked flints found between 1911 and 1914.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	BEACHAMWELL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1911-1914. Stray Find.
Possible Early Neolithic laurel leaf found at Cley Road, Beachamwell. Part of a collection of 28 flint artefacts and 7 fossils inherited by an individual from his father and known to have been in the family for at least 30 years when submitted for recording in 2010. The collection is loose in a cardboard box lined by a sheet from the Eastern Daily Press of August 12th 1948. There is also an accompanying yellowed sheet of paper with the following heading:

“FLINT IMPLEMENTS collected by . . . late of Stoke Ferry, Beechamwell and Necton, about 1911-1914, mostly Neolithic, i.e. New Stone Age, 3000-1800 B.C.”

See NHER 55437 for further details on this collection, most of which is unprovenanced.

P. Watkins (HES), 3 June 2013.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF8776 Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 3001 BC?)

Object Types (1)

LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Mar 4 2016 12:26PM