Record Details

NHER Number:6539
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A flaked Neolithic axehead was found on farm land at this site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 099 311
Map Sheet:TG03SE
Parish:BRISTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1958.
Axe. Flint nearly 1kg (2 pounds) weight 22cm (8 3/4 inches) long 9cm (3 1/2 inches) across greatest width. Shaped to narrow thin cutting edge at butt end. Found on farm land just in Briston parish beyond the Fulling Mill dividing Corpusty from Saxthorpe at ford of River Bure. See (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Not polished.
E. Rose (NAU).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 2.
---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. Briston.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1958. Another flint axe. 26 June.

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