Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8353 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic flint tranchet-type axe/adze |
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Summary
In 1972 a broken Mesolithic tranchet-type flint axe/adze was found at this location.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 402 250 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG42NW |
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| Parish: | HICKLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1972. Stray Find.
Surface find by [1]:
1 Mesolithic flint tranchet type axe/adze fragment. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2). Discovery reported in (S3) and also noted in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 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: 1972. Drawing of a fragmentary Mesolithic flaked flint tranchet axe/adze. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1972. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1972. No 19. p 5. |
| <S4> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 207. |
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