Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2349 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic flint tranchet adze |
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Summary
In 1957 a Mesolithic flint tranchet adze was found at this location.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8710 2975 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF82NE |
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| Parish: | DUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1957. Stray Find.
1 Mesolithic flint tranchet axe. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1957.222).
Information from (S1). This discovery was first reported in (S2). The axe is listed in (S3) and described by R. Jacobi (S4) as the patinated end of a burnt core adze with a tranchet blow on one side.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 82 NE 18. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 2. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 205. |
| <S4> | Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10216. |
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