Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11934 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric worked flints, Neolithic axehead and scrapers |
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Summary
During the 1970s and 80s a number of worked flints, including a Neolithic axehead, a blade and some scrapers, were recovered from this area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 100 037 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10SW |
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| Parish: | WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find.
Found on field surface:
1 Neolithic chipped flint axe, 5.2cm maximum width, 16.9cm minimum length. End broken in antiquity (impurity in flint inside). Made from a wide thick blade? See drawing (S1).
Also a number of waste flakes, not necessarily human.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 August 2014.
1977. On same site on field surface.
Long pointed blade with blunting retouch down one edge, and other flints including scrapers.
Only blade seen at NCM.
25 March 1986.
More worked flint.
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 19 August 1986.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Serial: 1976. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1976. No 23. p 23. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 10 SW 8. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T. 1976. Drawing of a Neolithic flaked flint axehead. Card. 1:1. |
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