Record Details

NHER Number:4602
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic to Bronze Age stone axe hammer

Summary

A Neolithic to Bronze Age stone axe hammer was found before 1828. The exact location of this discovery is unclear.

Images - none

Location

Parish:NECTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

'A mallet being a perforated boulder of Greenstone (porphyry) weighing 5lb 2oz found at Necton'
19cm (7 1/2 inches) long, 11cm (4 1/2 inches) maximum width.
Probably Dolerite.
Found between Necton and Holme Hale near Stream dividing the parishes, before 1828.
See (S1) and (S2).
(S3), (S4), (S5).
Also called Holme Hale.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Of porphyry.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Petrology N95 examined Dr F.S. Wallis 1969 Group XVIII - Whin Sill.
See (S6).
E.B. Green (NCM).

Petrological Identification of Stone Implements from E. Anglia/vol.38/6.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • AXE HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 80 NE 30.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Necton.
---Article in Serial: Williams-Thorpe, O., Webb, P. C. and Jones, M. C. 2003. Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol 30 pp 1237-1267.
<S1>Article in Serial: Committee Of The Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. 1853. Catalogue of The Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. p 11.
<S2>Publication: 1830. Catalogue.
<S3>Documentary Source: Various. Additional drawings, engravings, etc. collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk"; 1846-1857. Add MS 23053-23062. Vol XIII; f.36 (Add MS 23036).
<S4>Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition. p 202.
<S5>Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 277.
<S6>Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155.

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