Record Details
| NHER Number: | 36610 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic (or Mesolithic) flaked axehead/adze |
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Summary
A Neolithic (or possible Mesolithic) flint axehead/adze was found here in 2001.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2405 0605 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | TROWSE WITH NEWTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2001. Stray Find:
Found by [1] whilst walking:
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic incomplete flaked flint axe.
Butt end and main part of body of a long, narrow, prallel sided axe (or adze), snapped transveresely with hinged fracture. Lenticular section but with a pronounced crest in parts on the more convex face. Patinated a greyish white, with some buff staining on the less convex face. Neatly flaked with slightly undulating edges. Dimension: >115 x 46 x 19mm. Probably Neolithic, but might be Mesolithic.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NCM).
K. Hinds (NLA), 7 september 2001.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources - none
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