Record Details

NHER Number:10342
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead or adze

Summary

A Neolithic flaked flint axehead or adze was found in 1971.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3860 0125
Map Sheet:TG30SE
Parish:LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1971.
Chipped flint axe or adze, with slight polishing on some of the higher points near cutting edge.
See (S1).
T. Clough (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1971. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1971. No 18. p 7.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SE 4.
---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. Langley.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Clough, T.. 1971. Drawing of a Neolithic flaked flint axehead/adze.. Card. 1:1.

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