Record Details

NHER Number:7391
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A Neolithic part-polished axehead was found here during ploughing in 1959.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1652 2680
Map Sheet:TG12NE
Parish:AYLSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1959. Stray Find.
Found in ploughing:
Neolithic chipped, partly polished flint axehead.
This find is noted in local press articles (S1) and (S2), being pictured in the latter along with a Neolithic polished axehead that was found nearby the following year (recorded as NHER 7392). This object is amongst those listed in (S3).
Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1960.150).
Information from record card (S4).
See also photograph (S5) - a copy of which was originally reproduced in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 January 2024.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1960. His Second Find. 26 May.
<S2>Newspaper Article: Eastern Evening News. 1960. His Second Find. 26 May.
<S3>Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk.
<S4>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Aylsham.
<S5>Photograph: [unknown]. 1960. Photograph of Richard Dennis with the Neolithic axeheads he found at Woodgate Farm in 1959 and 1960.

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