Record Details

NHER Number:4383
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A Neolithic polished flint axehead was recovered in the parish before 1957.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BOUGHTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 1957. Stray Find.
Found at unrecorded location in Boughton parish:
Part of a Neolithic polished flint axehead. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 August 2018.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (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 70 SW 32.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1957. Drawing of a fragmentary Neolithic polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Boughton.
<S3>Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 2.

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