Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9144 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic chipped flint axe |
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Summary
A Neolithic chipped flint axe was found in the parish around 1825. The exact location and nature of this find remains unknown.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | QUIDENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Chipped flint axe found around 1825 in newly ploughed field (7 3/" long).
See (S1), (S2). Held in Sir Thomas Beever Collection (1887) and then in Sir Hugh Beever Collection (1921).
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: 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. Quidenham. |
| <S1> | Publication: Rolfe Collection Norfolk Illustrations. no.1058. |
| <S2> | Documentary Source: Various. Additional drawings, engravings, etc. collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk"; 1846-1857. Add MS 23053-23062. Vol III; p 164 (Add MS 23055). |
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