Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8741 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic stone axehead, Barrell's Farm (Saham Toney, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Neolithic ground stone axehead was recovered from farmland here in 1959. The exact findspot and circumstances of discovery are not known.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1959. Stray Find.
From Barrell's Farm.
Ground stone axehead.
Drawing in Petrology List - N84 Group I.
Held by NCM, formerly part of S. S. George Collection. See (S1).
Find listed in (S2) and noted on (S3).
T. H. Mck. Clough (NAU).
Farmworker told E. Rose (NAU) in May 1983 that Barrell's Farm was 'the next up the road from Park Farm but on the other side' (= Peartree Farm on Ordnance Survey?) and owned the land northeast of Park Farm's land around High Banks.
E. Rose (NAU) 18 May 1983.
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. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Saham Toney. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 5. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 90 SW 17. |
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