Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8415 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic to Bronze Age axe hammer |
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Summary
A Neolithic to Bronze Age stone axe hammer was found in 1868. The stone may have been imported from Scandinavia. The exact location of this discovery is unclear.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | HORNING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1868?
Stone axe hammer of dolerite. ?Import from Scandinavia. Petrology: N.59, olivine dolerite.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3)
R.R. Clarke (NCM) and T. Clough (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 31 NE 8. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Horning. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Horning. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: 1923. III [unknown]. Antiquaries Journal. Vol III, p 369. p 369. |
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