Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3088 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic or early Bronze Age stone axe hammer |
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Summary
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age perforated stone axe hammer was found on the surface of a ploughed field in 1961.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0341 2560 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG02NW |
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| Parish: | FOULSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1961. Stray Find.
Found in ploughed field:
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age perforated stone axe hammer. See drawing (S1).
Petrology (N.49) coarse dolerite or fine gabbro; see (S2).
Information from (S3) and (S4). This discovery was reported in (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 November 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. 1961. Drawing of a Neolithic/Bronze perforated stone axe hammer from Foulsham. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | 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. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Foulsham. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 02 NW 13. |
| <S5> | Serial: 1961. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1961. No 8. p 3. |
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