Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7391 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic part-polished axehead was found here during ploughing in 1959.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1652 2680 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG12NE |
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| Parish: | AYLSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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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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