Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14793 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Two Neolithic axeheads |
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Summary
Two Neolithic flaked flint axeheads were found before 1915. The exact nature and location of these discoveries are unclear.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 1915. Exact site unknown.
Two flint axes.
See (S1).
'Mr J.H. Gurney FZS, sent for exhibition a thin double-ended axe of grey flint, both sides chipped, with sinuous edges, 4 1/2 inches x 2 inches, and a half-celt, 3 1/2 inches x 1 5/8 inches at the base, with chipping at the flat end, both found by him at Keswick, Norfolk'.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 April 1979.
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: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 SW 41. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1916. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt II (for 1915-16) pp 320-325. p 320. |
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