NHER 59924 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period prehistoric worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF72SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Early 1999. Fieldwalking.
Various worked flints found by [1] in area centred TF 7896 2030:
155 undatable flakes, a high proportion of which are fresh and sharp, suggesting that may be from relatively recent knapping, potentially Iron Age or even medieval or later.
37 undatable prehistoric flints including 2 blades, 6 rounded end scrapers, 1 end and side scraper, 2 side scrapers (one on a cortical shatter fragment), 1 hollow scraper, 3 borers, 12 miscellaneous retouched flakes, 7 edge-damaged/utilised flakes, 1 hammerstone, 1 hammerstone flake.
14 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic blades.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano convex knife.
1 ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age retouched flake.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
2 undatable copper alloy sheet fragments also found.
Previously recorded under NHER 13018.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 March 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 December 2013.
Before 16 April 2004. Fieldwalking.
Various worked flints found by [1] in area centred TF 7899 2020:
2 Neolithic worked flints including 1 polished axe fragment and 1 chisel arrowhead.
23 ?Neolithic flints, including 20 rounded end scrapers, 1 retouched flake, 1 single platform core and 1 globular core.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano convex knife.
Possible manufacturing site for scrapers?
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
Previously recorded under NHER 13018.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 April 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 December 2013.
Associated Sources (1)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval - 1000000 BC to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE? (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
Object Types (19)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- END SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval - 1000000 BC to 1539 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SIDE SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Jun 3 2019 10:53AM