Record Details

NHER Number:15874
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead from east side of Windsor Road

Summary

A Neolithic flint polished and chipped axehead found in the early 1970s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2108 1240
Map Sheet:TG21SW
Parish:HELLESDON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1972 to 1973. Stray Find.
Found in digging footings for kitchen extension. Number of house not known but location indicated on map at grid reference.
1 Neolithic chipped flint axe of mottled light grey flint, partly polished. Blade rechipped, butt damaged.
See photograph (S1) in file and outline sketch (S2).
A. Lawson (NAU) 6 March 1980.

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.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hellesdon.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: BMQ.
<S2>Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1980. Outline sketch of a Neolithic part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.

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