Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24079 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axe hammer |
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Summary
A Neolithic axe hammer was found in a heap of stones collected from this area for road making.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 038 007 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG00SW |
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| Parish: | DEOPHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1987. Stray Find.
Found "two or three years" before 1987. From heap of stones for roadmaking collected in area of TG 038 007:
1 Neolithic axe hammer. Petrology N291. See drawing (S1).
Information from [1].
W. Milligan (NCM), 5 October 1987.
February 2000.
Axehammer seen sitting in fireplace in Crown Farm.
E. Rose (NLA), February 2000.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (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. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1987. Drawing of a Neolithic stone axe hammer. Paper. 1:1. |
Related records - none
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