Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3114 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead was found on the surface of a ploughed field here in 1973.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 094 293 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG02NE |
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| Parish: | WOOD DALLING, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1973. Stray Find.
Surface find in ploughed field:
1 Mesolithic chipped flint axehead with tranchet cutting edge. See sketch (S1).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 02 NE 9. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1973. Sketch of a Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead from Wood Dalling. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1973. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1973. No 20. p 15. |
Related records - none
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