Record Details

NHER Number:22613
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

A prehistoric flint flake, reused in the Neolithic period as a flaked axehead, found by fieldwalking.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2620 2062
Map Sheet:TG22SE
Parish:COLTISHALL, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

April 1986. Found in fieldwalking.
Large flint flake retouched as small axe.
Identified J. J. Wymer (NAU), 26 June 1986
W. F. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1986.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKED 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.

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