Record Details

NHER Number:2406
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flaked flint axehead

Summary

A Neolithic flaked flint axehead was recovered near the parish boundary in 1957.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6461 0676
Map Sheet:TF60NW
Parish:RUNCTON HOLME, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK
STOW BARDOLPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1957. Stray Find.
Found by member of the public [1] on boundary with Stow Bardolph:
1 Neolithic chipped flint adze. See drawing (S1) and NCM photo (S2).
Information from (S3). This discovery was reported in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2018.

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: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 60 NW 23.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Howlett, D. R. 1957. Drawing of a Neolithic flint adze. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Photograph: NCM.
<S3>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Runcton Holme.
<S4>Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 5.

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