NHER 8915 (Monument record) - Neolithic/Bronze Age flint production site and multi-period metal objects
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG00SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WICKLEWOOD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1975. Stray Find. [1].
Surface find at [2] ("top end of OS 275"):
Two flint flakes.
Details given to A. Lawson (NAU) 10 June 1976 who made out card 3 March 1977.
Information from record card (S1).
Previously recorded as NHER 12273.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2024.
June 1975-January 1976. Stray Find. [1].
Surface collection of flint within area of former OS Field 281 (now Context 1):
Includes two hundred and twenty-four flakes, eleven retouched flakes, one rejuvenator, eleven cores, two picks, sixteen scrapers, twelve blades, one notch, one pointed blade and one borer.
Most material rolled and little in mint condition as one might expect from the surface of a ploughed field. Possible site of Neolithic/Bronze Age flint industry?
Information from A. J. Lawson (NAU) 10 June 1976.
(Old road seen as cropmark across south-east corner of field - E. Rose (NAU).)
Details and location map in file.
Information from record card (S1). These discoveries were also reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2024.
July 1990. Stray Find. [3].
Medieval buckle.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field. Former extent recorded as Context 1.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2024.
8 July 1996. NLA aerial photography.
Faint cropmark visible.
H. Clare (NLA) 25 September 2001.
January-February 1998. Metal detected by [4].
Post medieval coin.
Roman and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file. Information from [5].
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 March 2000.
January-December 2012. Metal-detecting. [6].
Neolithic ? Scraper.
Neolithic to Bronze Age flint flakes and single platform cores.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 September 2013.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF50616 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. NHER TG 0700 A JCJ2 (NCC 368) 08-JULY-1996 (NLA).
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 00 SE 18.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 8915 and 12273.
- <S2> SNF2517 Serial: 1975. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1975. No 22. p 13.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (20)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PICK (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 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) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- STRAP FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jan 21 2026 10:26AM