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Record ID: SF-B21C25
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very regular spherical flint hammerstone with all-over, but fine, percussion scars. The regularity of this hammerstine is unusual but it is presumably still later prehistoric in date (4000-100 BC). Diameter 60.5-62.5mm and weight is 323g.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Brockdish', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-23BA22
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Neolithic oval tertiary flake of smokey brownish flint with some edge damage but probably deliberate fine steep retouch around the distal end. The retouch is semi-abrupt and suggests possible use as a scraper.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Litcham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-308632
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Neolithic flake of pale grey flint, curved in profile, lacking any bulb of percussion or conchoidal fracture, but with area on the cortex face which appears to be polished and has some parallel scratch marks. Probably formed when a polished axe shattered in use. If so then Neolithic.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Acle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-938A73
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic/Early Neolithic conical flake flint core (Clarkâs type A) with an unusual carefully prepared platform. In black flint with only a trace of thin cortex. This is probably the residue of a well used core which may in its earlier stages have been designed to produce blades.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Salle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-93ABE6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blades, all incomplete with residual lengths of 77, 58 and 42mm. None has an intact striking platform. Two are in light brown flint, the third is dark grey: negligible patination.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Knapton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-93C9C0
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic/ Early Neolithic retouched blade of honey-coloured flint, 41mm long, with ventral retouch along most of the left lateral edge.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Knapton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-7C5506
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 Early Neolithic blade segments. The largest has a cortical platform, diffuse bulb of percussion and incipient patination. The two smaller segments both lack proximal ends and are unpatinated.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bunwell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-7C5E60
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 Late Prehistoric scrapers: End on long secondary flake with cortex on right lateral edge. Steep, rather coarse retouch. End and left side scraper edges on small oval, sidestruck. secondary flake. Retouch on distal edge is rather irregular: that on the left side is finer and more regular but is ventral. Probably late prehistoric, i.e. Late Bronze or Iron Age.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bunwell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8CD112
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Neolithic knife. Blade-like flake with thin weathered cortex on the right lateral edge. The left edge has some retouch / damage but appears worn from use, with a short length of gloss at the distal end. Possibly used in a composite sickle.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tibenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8CF738
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Prehistoric denticulate / scraper. Rounded primary flake of black flint with a thin grey pebble cortex carrying some iron staining. Much of the circumference has coarse and irregular retouch on the left edge and distal end but with more refined steep retouch on the right edge.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tibenham', grid reference and parish protected.
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