Record Details

NHER Number:22436
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic flint find

Summary

A Neolithic polished flint axehead, its blade broken and then rechipped, was found before 1986.

Images - none

Location

Parish:GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Found before 1986. Stray Find.
1 Neolithic polished flint axe. With suggestions of flat facetted sides, broken in antiquity and rechipped at blade end. Grey flint. 150mm by 60mm. See outline sketch (S1).
Seen E. Rose (NAU), 18 April 1986.

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.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
<S1>Illustration: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1.

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