Record Details

NHER Number:14716
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A Neolithic flint polished axehead. The circumstances of its discovery are unknown.

Images - none

Location

Parish:HELLESDON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Date unknown. 'Near the Wilderness'.
Part polished flint axe fragment.
Information from F. Healy (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 9 April 1979.

No such name on (S1), but 1909 revision os (S1) shows a garden at about TF 202 103 south of the then existing hall, of the type that sometimes bore this name.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Map: Pratt & Son. 1839. Hellesdon Tithe Award Map.

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