Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22435 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unusual Neolithic worked flint |
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Summary
An unusual Neolithic tool was found in Harling. It may have been an axehead made from a large flake. The exact location and nature of its discovery are unclear.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Pre 1986.
Neolithic flint tool, unusual, apparently an attempt to make an axe on a large flake. Grey flint, almost S-profile. 130mm x 56mm.
See outline sketch (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 16 April 1986.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
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: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
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