Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3264 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic axehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic axehead was found at this site in 1966.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1966. Stray Find.
Found at Vincent Hill (West Newton).
Neolithic chipped flint axehead. See drawing (S1).
According to [1]:
"Quite a lot of flint scrapers, flakes etc to be found on [this] hill. Used to be part of Flitcham Common.
Shown by 16th century maps; one map speaks of a green bank running across south slopes.
Information from (S2). A Note on (S1) suggests that this object is in the Sandringham Estate Museum ('York Cottage Museum').
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2018.
Exact site of axehead noted from (S3).
See also NHER 16811 and NHER 16812.
E. Rose (NAU) 26 November 1980. Information from (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2018.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (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
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Lewton-Braine, C. H. 1966. Drawing of a Neolithic flaked flint axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Flitcham with Appleton. |
| <S3> | Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map. |
| <S4> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records - none
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