Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30812 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Neolithic axehead |
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Summary
A Late Neolithic flaked flint axehead, found by fieldwalking in 1994.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8482 2862 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF82NW |
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| Parish: | EAST RUDHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1994. Fieldwalking.
Flaked axe/adze.
152mm x 54 x 31 of unusually pronounced plano convex section.
Grey to grey/brown flint with small coarse grained inclusions.
Flaked over whole of the curved face, steeply at the lateral edges; the more planor face has shallow invasive flaking with an area of natural cleavage towards one end.
There are signs of useage/wear on the planor face at both ends.
Neolithic, probably Late Neolithic.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), 8 August 1994.
Drawing in file.
B. Cushion (NLA), August 1994.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: 2001. Finds Illustration. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
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