Record Details

NHER Number:14843
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic chipped axehead

Summary

Around 1850 a 'perfectly chipped' Neolithic axehead was recovered from Poringland. This fine example went on to be exhibited.

Images - none

Location

Parish:PORINGLAND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

About 1850.
Flint axe 'perfectly chipped'.
Information from member of the public [1] in 1915.
Exhibited by [2], see (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 2 May 1979.

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

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 SE 21.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1911. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt I (for 1909-1910) pp 109-121. p 109.

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