Record Details

NHER Number:6438
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axehead

Summary

Part of a Neolithic polished flint axehead.

Images - none

Location

Parish:CROMER, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Cutting edge of stone axe.
Petrological Survey N.5 possibly an erratic from boulder clay (amphibolite). Geological Survey Enquiry 1216, see (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM) and T. Clough (NCM)

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.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Cromer.
<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.

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