NHER 9000 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Mesolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints (Wretham, poorly located)
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WRETHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Full Description
Objects known to have been found in Wretham during the early 20th century, but with little additional information regarding provenance.
FINDS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
1930s. Stray Find.
The Norwich Castle Museum's S. S. George Collection (NWHCM : 1963.120) includes a number of prehistoric implements that are known to have been found in Wretham during the 1930s. These finds are noted by (S1) and listed in (S2) as:
3 Neolithic flaked flint axes (2 fragmentary) and 2 partly polished flint adzes (1 fragmentary).
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age fragmentary probable flint dagger (point).
One of the axes was subsequently identified by R. Jacobi as a Mesolithic tranchet adze (NWHCM : 1963.120.28). This object is described in (S3).
P. Watkins (HES), 11 September 2014.
REPORTED DISCOVERIES
Pre 1907. Stray Find.
In 1907 W. G. Clarke listed Wretham as one of the locations that had produced "Boulder Clay Type" Neolithic implements prior to 1907 (S4). W. A. Dutt and Clarke himself were listed as the finders. Information from (S1).
Previously recorded as NHER 8996.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 September 2014.
1940s. Stray Find.
Found at unknown location at Wretham:
Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Late Saxon/medieval whetstone fragment.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 April 2024.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 8996 and 9000.
- <S1> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Wretham.
- <S2> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 797.
- <S3> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10414.
- <S4> SNF1308 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 399.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (7)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DAGGER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- WHETSTONE (Middle Saxon to Medieval - 800 AD to 1400 AD)
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Record last edited
May 19 2024 11:19PM