Record Details

NHER Number:3141
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic or later quartzite pebble macehead

Summary

A prehistoric quartzite pebble macehead was ploughed up here in 1961. These objects are not closely datable, having been found in both Mesolithic and later prehistoric contexts.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 0664 2209
Map Sheet:TG02SE
Parish:REEPHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1961. Stray Find.
Found during ploughing:
1 prehistoric perforated stone macehead (?quartzite). See sketch (S1). Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1961.159; originally recorded as being from Bawdeswell). Information from (S2).
This discovery was reported in (S3) and (although originally recorded as Neolithic or Bronze Age) is listed as a pebble macehead in (S4). These objects are however generally not seen as closely datable, having been found in both Mesolithic and later prehistoric contexts.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 July 2013.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PEBBLE MACE (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 02 SE 10.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1961. Sketch of a Mesolithic or later perforated quartzite macehead from Reepham. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Reepham.
<S3>Serial: 1961. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1961. No 8. p 2.
<S4>Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 211.

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