Record Details

NHER Number:22976
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flaked axehead

Summary

In 1986 a flint roughout for a large Neolithic axehead, not quite finished, was recovered from the surface of this site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 34 00
Map Sheet:TG30SW
Parish:THURTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1986. Found on surface. Field 110 OS.
Flint roughout for large axehead not quite finished, ready for polishing 'Difficult to understand why this was not done.' (S1).
Indentified by J. Wymer (NAU).
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 27 August 1986.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED 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.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J.. 1986. Drawing of a large Neolithic axehead.. Paper. 1:1.

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