Record Details

NHER Number:15898
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead and Roman pottery

Summary

A small Neolithic flint axe or pick, three fragments of Roman pottery and a Spanish Roman amphora handle were found on the surface of this field.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1262 1069
Map Sheet:TG11SW
Parish:EASTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1979. Surface finds. Top of rise running down to river.
Small axe or pick in grey chipped flint
Identified by A. K. Lawson (NAU).
See (S1).
Three Roman sherds.
Handle of Spanish globular amphora.
S. Margeson (NCM) February 1980.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PICK (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.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Banham. P.. 1980. Drawing of a Neolithic flint axe/pick.. Card. 1:1.

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