Record Details

NHER Number:31496
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic part-polished axehead and scraper

Summary

Fieldwalking In 1995 recovered a Neolithic part-polished flint axehead fragment and a ?Neolithic flint side scraper that had been made on a patinated flake of possible Palaeolithic date.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 053 365
Map Sheet:TG03NE
Parish:THORNAGE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

May/June 1995. Fieldwalking.
Found at western edge of field:
1 Neolithic part-polished flint axehead fragment.
1 ?Neolithic side scraper made on a patinated ?Palaeolithic flake.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 August 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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