Record Details

NHER Number:9705
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead from Low Farm

Summary

A Neolithic flaked flint axehead was found. The axehead may have been made from a flint saddle quern.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2010 0415
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1941. Low Farm.
Chipped flint axe - cherty material (?made from old flint saddle quern).
R.R. Clarke (NCM). Information from (S1)

Incorrectly recorded as Palaeolithic by (S2) and (S3).
P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2013.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SADDLE QUERN (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.
<S1>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic.
<S2>Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 SW 36.
<S3>Unpublished Document: Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1974. The Archaeological Implications of the Norwich Southern By-Pass.

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