Mesolithic to Bronze Age lithic working site, Hamborough Hill (EHER 13512)

Flint working floor dating from the Mesolithic to Bronze Age was found by Mr H Rand while removing topsoil from Hamborough Hill. Finds included axes, a sickle, barbed and tanged arrowheads, leaf-shaped arrowheads, knives, grindstones and scrapers. Summary from record 13513: Worked flint tools of Neolithic date.

Flints. Some found in the general area of the Iron Age cemetery (EHER 13526). There was also a wide scatter of flints including axe fragments, arrowheads and flakes found over the general area of Hamborough Hill. Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements including leaf-shaped and barbed and tanged arrowheads. Also from the Mays collection, found in 1935, two barbed and tanged arrowheads, one partly worked; flint knife (point missing) made from long curved flint. <1> - <5> Worked flint tools of Neolithic date. Also barbed and tanged arrowheads of Bronze Age date, also Bronze Age whetstones and knife, flint. <1> <2> <5> NRHE data transfer: Flint working floor Mesolithic to Bronze Age found by Mr. H. Rand while removing topsoil from Hamborough Hill. <2> Finds included axes, a sickle (<1>), barbed and tanged arrowheads, leaf-shaped arrowheads, knives (<6>), grindstones, scrapers, etc.. <1> <2> <6>