Record Details

NHER Number:20357
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A Neolithic polished flint axehead found in a potato harvesting machine in the 1970s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 503 158
Map Sheet:TG51NW
Parish:ORMESBY ST MARGARET WITH SCRATBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

Late 1970s. Stray Find.
Found in potato harvesting machine after work in this part of field:
Neolithic polished flint axehead. See drawing (S1).
Identified by J. Wymer and compiled by A. Gregory (NAU), 14 March 1984.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.

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

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J. 1984. Drawing of a Neolithic polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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