Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9164 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead and Roman pottery sherds, Ellingham Hall |
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Summary
A large Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in 1832 to the south of Great Ellingham Hall. Prior to this, Roman pottery sherds had been found in the same area.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1832. Stray Find.
Found on low common, about 1 mile [1.6km] south of Great Ellingham Hall:
1 Neolithic large polished axe of flint with a ruddy brown patina. See sketch (S1) and accompanying note.
Same as that in (S2), in printed summary called Little Ellingham. See also (S3). This object is probably the "celt" from Ellingham noted in (S3) and the reason that Ellingham was listed in (S4) as one of the places where "polished or igneous" implements had been found prior to 1907.
Information from (S5), which lists this object as now held by Thetford Museum (possibly THEHM : 1975.314, which was acquired in 1924).
Found at same time:
Ornamented Samian ware.
Information from (S5) and (S6).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 August 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Barnard, G. J. 1870. Sketch of a Neolithic polished flint axe. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | 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 VIII; f.126 (Add MS 23031). |
| <S3> | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1913. Hundred of Shropham. The Churches of Norfolk. |
| <S4> | 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 312. |
| <S5> | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 404. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Ellingham (Great). |
| <S6> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Ellingham (Great). |
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