Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6199 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Twenty to thirty Neolithic axeheads |
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Summary
Between twenty and thirty Neolithic polished and flaked flint axeheads were found on the parish border which follows a glacial stream bed.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 077 412 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG04SE |
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| Parish: | KELLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| SALTHOUSE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1951. Stray Find.
Found 530 yards [484m] south-south-west of Lower Farm:
Neolithic chipped flint axehead.
Seen by R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2019.
Pre 1969. Stray Find.
Twenty to thirty flint axes polished and part polished picked up in lower parts of three fields. Parish boundary follows dug glacial stream bed which runs between these fields. Implements picked up by farm workers.
Information from [1], who had examined the material. Compiled by E. B. Green (NCM).
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2019.
Pre December 1996. Stray Find.
Found at approximately [2]:
1 Neolithic reflaked polished flint axehead. See drawing (S3).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM) [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- 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. TG 04 SE 6. |
| --- | 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 - Neolithic. Salthouse. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Kelling (Salthouse). |
| <S3> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1996. Drawing of a Neolithic polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
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