NHER 1414 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axehead
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF63NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HEACHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
March 1951. Stray Find.
Found west of Gill's Smallholding:
1 Neolithic polished flint axehead. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2018.
This axe is now in the Kings Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1963.71), and was formerly wrongly included under NHER 1418.
Information from F. Healy (NAU).
It is one of the two flint axeheads with this accession number noted in (S3).
E. Rose (NAU) 1 June 1987. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2018.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 63 NE 29 [2]; TF 63 NE 32.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF81770 Illustration: [Unknown]. 1951. Drawing of a Neolithic part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Heacham.
- <S3> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 224.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
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Record last edited
Apr 17 2023 3:48PM