Record Details

NHER Number:9889
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic to Bronze Age stone adze (poorly located, Caistor St Edmund)

Summary

Part of a Neolithic to Bronze Age perforated stone adze was found on top of a pillbox and may have been a local find.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2521 0324
Map Sheet:TG20SE
Parish:CAISTOR ST EDMUND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1971.
Half a perforated stone adze found on top of a pill box (NHER 52473). Local find? Greenstone, see (S1). Petrology N141.

The pillbox previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 52473, see record for details.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1971. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1971. No 18. p 4.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 SE 24.
---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 - Bronze Age. Caister-by-Norwich.
<S1>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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