Record Details

NHER Number:3442
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flint adze

Summary

A Neolithic flint adze was found in about 1950.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 666 110
Map Sheet:TF61SE
Parish:WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

About 1950. Stray Find.
Found in north-west edge of Shouldham Warren:
Neolithic flint adze of very dark brown flint. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This object was recorded as being on loan to the King's Lynn Museum in 1958 and is probable the adze from Wormegay now accessioned as KILLM : 2001.574.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 June 2018.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • ADZE (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.
<S1>Illustration: Mottram, A. S. 1950. Drawing of a Neolithic flint adze. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Wormegay.

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