Record Details

NHER Number:6223
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic worked flint and possible axehead from Four Cross Ways

Summary

A Neolithic grey flint tool and a possible flaked flint axehead chipped tool were found.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0940 4290
Map Sheet:TG04SE
Parish:KELLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Around 1910. 'Near Four Cross Ways, Kelling'.
Grey flint tool with white patination, 14.6cm (5 3/4 inches) long, 5.7cm (2 1/4 inches) broad, lozenge section. Also from same site a chipped tool (axe?) 12cm (4 3/4 inches) x 4.4cm (1 3/4 inches), polygonal section.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

15 April 1980.
Manager of Holt Hall, confirms that Four Cross Ways is the crossroads at TG 0940 4290.
E. Rose (NAU).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (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.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Kelling.

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