Record Details

NHER Number:24636
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Scandinavian Neolithic axehead

Summary

A Neolithic flint flaked axehead found in 1986. The axehead probably originated in Scandinavia.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9994 3742
Map Sheet:TF93NE
Parish:GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Summer 1986. Found after cultivation.
Grey cherty brown stained flint axe of Scandinavian type, (S1).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU)
W. Milligan (NCM) 19 November 1988.

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

---Correspondence: Green, E. B.. 1986. Letter. 28 November.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Abigail, N.. 1986. Drawing of a Neolithic Scandinavian axe.. Paper. 1:1.

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