Record Details
NHER Number: | 2242 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone axehammer |
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Summary
In 1951 a stone axehammer dating to Neolithic or Early Bronze Age was recovered southwest of St Mary's Bridge.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 584 138 |
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Map Sheet: | TF51SE |
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Parish: | WIGGENHALL ST GERMANS, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1951. 700ft (213m) southwest of St Mary's Bridge.
Stone axe-hammer.
In NCM [1].
Comp. R. R. Clarke.
N.107, examined by Dr F. S. Wallis, pure quartzite. B. Beeby.
Ordnance Survey Records (S2).
R. J. Rickett 23 February 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Beaker - 4000 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 51 SE 1 [2]. |
--- | 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. Wiggenhall St Germans. |
<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> | Article in Serial: Roe, F. E. S. 1966. The Battle-Axe Series in Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol XXXII pp 199-245. p 236. |
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