Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2687 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic polished flint axehead and fragment |
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Summary
In 1956 the cutting edge of a Neolithic polished flint axehead, as well as a single whole axehead, were recovered from this area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8417 0530 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF80NW |
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| Parish: | SOUTH PICKENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1956. 1 1/8 miles (1.81km) northwest of church.
Cutting edge of polished flint axehead, also a whole one, given away.
In NCM.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Letter in file seems to refer to this, from attached sketch map (S1).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Serial: 1956. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 3. p 4. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 80 NW 24. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Pickenham (South). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
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