Record Details

NHER Number:18414
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic/Bronze Age flint axehead

Summary

At sometime before 1982 a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint axe was found during the digging of a cesspit here. The blade was polished but the rest of the axehead was chipped.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8787 3455
Map Sheet:TF83SE
Parish:SOUTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

'Some years before' 1982. Garden of cottage beside road to produce factory. Latter not on 6in Ordnance Survey. Found in digging cesspit.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint axe, 15cm long, polished blade but rest chipped.
Photographs (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 11 October 1982.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: CBP 7a, 8a.

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