Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7392 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic polished flint axehead was found here in 1960.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1656 2665 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG12NE |
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| Parish: | AYLSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1960. Stray Find.
Found while ploughing at Woodgate Farm, on south side of road:
Neolithic polished flint axehead.
This find was reported in local press articles (S1) and (S2), being pictured in the latter along with a Neolithic part-polished axehead that had been found nearby the previous year (recorded as NHER 7391). The discovery is also noted in (S3) and amongst those listed in (S4).
The axehead itself was donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1960.151).
Information from record card (S5).
See also photograph (S6) - 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> | Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 2. |
| <S4> | Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 224. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Aylsham. |
| <S6> | Photograph: [unknown]. 1960. Photograph of Richard Dennis with the Neolithic axeheads he found at Woodgate Farm in 1959 and 1960. |
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