Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15874 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead from east side of Windsor Road |
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Summary
A Neolithic flint polished and chipped axehead found in the early 1970s.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2108 1240 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21SW |
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| Parish: | HELLESDON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1972 to 1973. Stray Find.
Found in digging footings for kitchen extension. Number of house not known but location indicated on map at grid reference.
1 Neolithic chipped flint axe of mottled light grey flint, partly polished. Blade rechipped, butt damaged.
See photograph (S1) in file and outline sketch (S2).
A. Lawson (NAU) 6 March 1980.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (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. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hellesdon. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: BMQ. |
| <S2> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1980. Outline sketch of a Neolithic part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
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