Small find - Broken Flint Sickle or Dagger
I found this broken flint sickle purely be chance. i had arranged to meet a friend near to the Roman site (Norfolk SMR 32349) in Thetford Warren, Norfolk, when just as I approached him, I spotted this wonderful flint piece in some exposed forest soil!
This is a broken fragment of what was (or was intended to be) a high quality, and therefore probably high status piece - most probably a sickle. Neatly pressure flaked all over its surfaces, I would date it to the late Neolithic again. Found on lower slopes / gravel terrace, only around 500 metres from the modern river Little Ouse. It might suggest farming, but sickles could be used for wild plants. It may even have had a status or symbolic value rather than being a utilised tool.
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