Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7336 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | ?Palaeolithic and Neolithic flint implements |
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Summary
Two prehistoric core tools were recovered in this field during harvesting in 1967. One was identified as a Neolithic part-polished adze and the other as a ?unfinished axehead. It has been suggested that the latter may actually be a Palaeolithic handaxe.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1418 2630 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG12NW |
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| Parish: | CAWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Autumn 1967. Stray Find.
Found while lifting carrots (then placed in farm road):
1 Neolithic chipped flint adze (cutting edge slightly polished).
1 ?Neolithic flint axe (?unfinished).
Information from (S1).
Both objects were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1967.200). The object initially recorded as a ?unfinished axehead was subsequently identified by P. Robins (NCM) as a potentially Palaeolithic implement.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 September 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE? (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- 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. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Cawston. |
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