Element record L554 - Flint finds from topsoil, Attenborough

Summary

ARTEFACT SCATTER (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age)

Location

Grid reference SK 51683 34403 (point)
Map sheet SK53SW
District Broxtowe
Civil Parish Attenborough, Broxtowe

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

A small barbed and tanged arrowhead, a tranchet arrowhead, 2 scrapers, 3 flints with secondary working, 2 flint cores and 20 flint flakes were found in topsoil removed prior to gravel digging. (1)
Finds held NCM, Accession Nos. NCM 1965-7, NCM 1965-13, NCM 1965-11, NCM 1965-4, NCM 1965-5, 1965-2 and NCM 1965-3. Further objects held at NCM may match up with the 20 flakes described above but identification not certain. (2)
NB OS give SK 517342.
See L7963 for IA pottery.
Many finds from gravel pits - see SMR map.


<1> EMAB eds, 1963, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, p 13 (Published document). SNT157.

<2> TPAT, 2014, A&E Heritage Rescue: Community Research Project at the Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire, p 30 (Published document). SNT4700.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Published document: EMAB eds. 1963. East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin. 6. p 13.
  • <2> Published document: TPAT. 2014. A&E Heritage Rescue: Community Research Project at the Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire. p 30.

Finds (6)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jan 19 2023 7:34PM

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