Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3895 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint find (Narborough, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in 1849 during excavations for a railway line.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | NARBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1849 or before. Stray Find.
Found during excavations for railway:
Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Originally in the possession of B. Taylor of Swaffham and now part of the Norwich Castle Museum Fitch Collection (NWHCM : 1894.76.810).
This implement is amongst those noted by Evans in (S1) and (S2) and is probably the flint axehead "found near Narborough" depicted in one of the Rev. J. Bulwer drawings held by the NCM (S3).
Information from (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 July 2018.
1988.
E.B.Green (NCM) say that this is indeed probably the object depicted in the Bulwer drawing noted above (drawing no NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B219).
Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 July 2018.
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> | Publication: Evans, J. 1872. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 1st Edition. p 91. |
| <S2> | Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition. p 100. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Bulwer, J. Drawing of Neolithic polished flint axehead ("Stone Celt, weighing 55 ounces, found near Narborough"). |
| <S4> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Narborough. |
| <S5> | Recording Form: Norfolk Museum Service and Norfolk Historic Environment Service Staff. 1974?-2016. Data Transfer Forms. Norfolk County Council. |
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