Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10742 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead and other worked flints |
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Summary
Neolithic axehead from Aldeby brick pit and other Neolithic worked flint tools possibly from the same site.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | ALDEBY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
From Aldeby brick pit.
Large polished flint axe with white patina, 'chipped on both sides'.
Possible location is old disused pits at 461 933.
E. Rose (NAU) 1 March 1978.
According to F. Healy (NAU), CUMAE registration number also includes ?unfinished laurel leaf, ? barbed and tanged arrowhead, and a fragment of polished axe with squared sides, though only axe mentioned above is marked as from Aldeby brick pit.
F. Healy (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Beaker - 4000 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 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. Aldeby. |
Related records - none
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