NHER 9890 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced multi-period finds, Blackford Hall Farm (Stoke Holy Cross, poorly located)
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | STOKE HOLY CROSS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Full Description
Various objects reportedly found at Blackford Hall/Blackford Hall farm during the 20th century, but with no additional information regarding provenance. Blackford Hall itself lies at the eastern edge of Stoke Holy Cross parish (NHER 9908), but the extent of its estate is not known.
Around 1947. Stray Find.
Finds recovered by [1] at "Blackford Hall Farm" and seen by R. R. Clarke (NCM) in 1947:
1 prehistoric triangular saddle quern. Previously recorded as NHER 9891.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 March 2014.
Pre 1982. Stray Find.
Found "on estate of Blackford Hall Farm":
1 post-medieval horse brass with stag emblem of D'Oyleys, who owned Blackford Hall in the 17th century. Information from NCM Bolingbroke Collection.
Seen by E. B. Green in 1982. Owner does not know the exact findspot. Information from (S2).
Previously recorded as NHER 13206.
E. B. Green (NCM), 22 April 1982. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 March 2014.
Pre April 1999. Stray Find.
Found in vicinity of Blackford Hall by [2] (possibly same individual as [1]):
1 ?Palaeolithic flint biface. See drawing (S3).
1 Mesolithic flaked flint axehead with evidence for tranchet sharpening. See drawing (S4).
1 ?Mesolithic flaked flint axehead. See drawing (S5).
2 Neolithic flaked flint axeheads and 1 adze. See drawings (S5) and (S6).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file [3].
None of these objects were associated with an exact provenance. It should however be noted that during the mid 1990s the Norwich Castle Museum recorded two sites as being locations where this finder had recovered a "Meso flint axe" (NHER 39931 and NHER 43199). No descriptions of these objects have been found and it is possible that one or both were amongst the material recorded in 1999.
It has now been possible to establish the exact provenance of an unfinished Palaeolithic flint handaxe that was brought in at the same time as the above objects. This is now recorded as NHER 63139.
P. Watkins (HES), 19 September 2016. Amended 5 December 2018.
Associated Sources (6)
- <S1> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Stoke Holy Cross.
- <S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 9890-9891 and 13206.
- <S3> SNF94445 Illustration: Robins, P. 1999. Drawing of a ?Palaeolithic flint biface from Stoke Holy Cross. Paper. 1:1.
- <S4> SNF90831 Illustration: Robins, P. 1999. Drawing of a ?Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead from Stoke Holy Cross. Paper. 1:1.
- <S5> SNF94446 Illustration: Robins, P. 1999. Drawings of ?Mesolithic and Neolithic flaked flint axeheads from Stoke Holy Cross. Paper. 1:1.
- <S7> SNF94447 Illustration: Robins, P. 1999. Drawings of a Neolithic flaked flint axehead and flaked flint adze from Stoke Holy Cross. Paper. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (8)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- QUERN (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Dec 6 2018 12:09PM