Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2791 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic chisel or axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic flint chisel or axehead found in 1959.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9665 1709 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91NE |
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| Parish: | GRESSENHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1959. Stray Find.
Found in unknown circumstances at 'White Ladies' (Market garden laid out in World War Two on common land):
Neolithic end-polished flint chisel. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
Later donated to Norwich Castle Museum as part of Dr Puddy collection (NWHCM : 1984.9.2).
Location of house checked and confirmed find same as recorded on (S2).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU) and E. B. Green (NCM) December 1983.
Information from (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- CHISEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 91 NE 14. |
| --- | Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 3. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Gressenhall. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Howlett, D. R. 1959. Drawing of a Neolithic end-polished flint chisel. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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