Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4522 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic polished axehead, made of flint, found before 1897.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Pre 1897.
Cutting edge of flint axe, ground and polished.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
See (S1), reference seems to be the axe 'from the fen'.
E. Rose (NAU) 22 April 1985.
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
| --- | Article in Serial: Plowright, C. B. 1892. Neolithic Man in West Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol V Pt 3 (for 1891-92) pp 250-264. p 253. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition. p 100. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Unknown. [unknown title]. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. [unknown volume]. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Beechamwell. |
| <S1> | Newspaper Article: Nightingale (Lynn Advertiser). 28 November . [unknown]. |
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