Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3145 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic/Neolithic flint axehead, Bronze Age gouge and medieval coin |
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Summary
A Mesolithic/Neolithic chipped flint axehead was found in this field in 1940. Metal-detecting in 2010 recovered a Late Bronze Age copper alloy gouge and a medieval coin.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 09 24 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG02SE |
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| Parish: | SALLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1940. Stray Find.
Found in field next to 'Clarke's eight acres':
1 prehistoric chipped flint axe.
Subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1962.13).
Although originally recorded as Neolithic this object was later reidentified by R. Jacobi as potentially Mesolithic.
Information from (S1) and museum records.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 October 2014.
January-February 2010. Metal-detecting. Area extended.
1 Late bronze Age copper alloy gouge. See drawing (S2).
1 medieval coin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 March 2010.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- GOUGE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 02 SE 14. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Sall. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2010. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy gouge. Film. 1:1. |
Related records - none
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