Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19655 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric worked flint, Neolithic polished axehead and medieval pottery |
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Summary
A complete Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in 1969. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints and one piece of medieval pot.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 71 95 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
About 1969. Found in ploughsoil by [1]. Close to cut-off channel.
Near flint NHER 4743.
Complete flint ground axe of high quality. Length 17.5 cm. Thin butted with facets along sides. Stained brown, suggesting contact with peat.
See (S1) in file.
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU), 1 November 1983.
Information from S. Ashley (NAU).
J. Wymer (NAU), 1 November 1983.
31 October 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Weathered soil, young cereal.
Context 1. MTW BS.
Odd flints and one sherd medieval? pottery.
R. Silvester (NAU), 4 November 1986.
Part of Neolithic scatter of NHER 4743 within this field is now NHER 19655/context 3. See NHER 4743 for details.
E. Rose (NAU), 5 November 1986.
Additional to entry above, 1969.
Flint axe, previously recorded, re-submitted. Additional description and digital photographs added to the file.
E. Darch (HES), 28 September 2010.
The polished flint axe head re-submitted for recording 29 April 2010 has been donated to Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.
E. Darch (HES), 12 October 2011.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: CLS 8 to 9. Neolithic polished axehead. |
Related records
| 4743 | Related to: Neolithic worked flints from east bank of Cut-off Channel (Find Spot) |