Record Details

NHER Number:2347
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic/Bronze Age axehead and prehistoric pot boilers

Summary

In 1951 a Neolithic or Bronze Age flint axehead and a scatter of prehistoric pot boilers were discovered at Pinkney.

Images - none

Location

Parish:TATTERSETT, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1951. Stray Find.
Found by member of the public [1] at Pinkney while waiting outside a cover.
1 Neolithic polished flint axehead near concentration of pot boilers. See sketch by Thatcher (S1).
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2018.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 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: Thatcher, I. 1951. Sketch of a Neolithic polished flint axehead. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Tattersett.

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