Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10294 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic chipped and polished axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic chipped and partly polished flint axehead was ploughed up in 1958.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3252 0485 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | ROCKLAND ST MARY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 1958. Stray Find.
Ploughed up southwest of Broad Hall Farm:
1 Neolithic chipped and partly polished flint axehead, 27.3cm (10 3/4 inches) long.
See drawing (S1) and press cutings (S2) and (S3) (copies in file).
Information from (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 August 2014.
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)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 4. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SW 28. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1958. Drawing of a Neolithic part-polished flaked flint axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1958. A Fine Flint Axe Ploughed Up. 15 June. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1958. Stone Age Axe (photograph). 16 May. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Rockland (St Mary). |
Related records - none
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