Record Details
NHER Number: | 6824 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic flint axehead and undated mould |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flaked flint tranchet axehead was recovered at this spot in 1970. An undated copper alloy mould was found here in 1986.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 2776 3481 |
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Map Sheet: | TG23SE |
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Parish: | TRUNCH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1970. Stray Find.
Found on surface by [1]:
1 Mesolithic chipped flint axe/adze. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1971.49).
Information from (S1). First reported in (S2) and listed a non-tranchet axehead in (S3). This object is however described in (S4) as a Norfolk type adze with a tranchet blow on its dorsal surface.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 June 2014.
1986. [2]
Bronze 'ball' mould, undated, see site NHER 6825.
W. F. Milligan (NCM), December 1986.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- MOULD (Undated)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
<S2> | Serial: 1970. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1970. No 17. p 15. |
<S3> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 214. |
<S4> | Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10389. |
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