Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7933 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint find (Roydon near Diss, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Neolithic chipped black flint axehead was found in 1814.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | ROYDON (NEAR DISS), SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Chipped black flint axe found in Roydon Fen near Diss (Certainly?) in 1814. 15.9cm by 5.7cm (6 1/4 inches by 2 1/4 inches) (Probably the one seen by Greville Chester, (S1), (S2)). NCM, presented by G. Johnson, December 1830. (S3), (S4).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 SE 22. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Roydon (Near Diss). |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Chester, G. J.. 1855. A Brief Sketch of the Antiquities of the Valleys of the Waveney and Yare. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol IV pp 310-316. p 311. |
| <S2> | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 277. |
| <S3> | Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. No 51. |
| <S4> | Documentary Source: Various. Drawings, engravings and etchings, including numerous portraits, maps, etc, collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk" 1810-1847. Add MS 23024-23052. Vol XX; f. 44 (Add MS 23043). |
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