Record Details

NHER Number:3251
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flint find

Summary

A Neolithic polished stone axehead was found at an uncertain date.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 678 262
Map Sheet:TF62NE
Parish:SANDRINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Polished stone axe from Whalley Farm, Babingley. (Information from copy NCM card).

King's Lynn Museum 6 inch map marks this find at site NHER 16813; which is correct? It gives date of finding as both '1965' and '3 March 1959'!
E. Rose (NAU), 26 November 1980.

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

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155.

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