Record Details

NHER Number:17780
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic chisel or pick

Summary

A Neolithic flint chisel or pick found during fieldwalking.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 3614 9564
Map Sheet:TM39NE
Parish:LODDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

May 1981. Field no.28. Found in fieldwalking.
Flaked flint fabricator.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU) September 1981.
E.B. Green (NCM) September 1981.

1985.
Reidentified by J. Wymer (NAU) as Neolithic chisel or pick.
Slight smoothing on one edge near pointed end.
Confirmed this is the same object and is not the same as Mesolithic axe from site NHER 17817 as formerly wrongly entered.
E. Rose (NAU) 31 May 1985.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CHISEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PICK (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 28. Hales.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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