Record Details

NHER Number:24402
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic/Neolithic flint axehead

Summary

At sometime prior to 1988 a Mesolithic or Neolithic chipped flint axehead was recovered from the ground surface here.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3534 2531
Map Sheet:TG32NE
Parish:STALHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Pre 1988. Fieldwalking.
Surface find by [1] in field centred at TG 3535 2530:
1 Mesolithic/Neolithic type chipped flint axehead of roughly triangular section. See sketch (S1).
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and compiled by A. Gregory (NAU) 4 February 1987.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2014.

Note correction: formerly entered as from site 24403.
D. Gurney (NUA) 7 September 1988.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1989. Sketch of a Mesolithic/Neolithic type chipped flint axehead from Stalham. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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