NHER 1492 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic tools and polished axeheads

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Summary

It is recorded that a number of Neolithic tools and polished axeheads were recovered from the Park Farm area of Snettisham. The exact date and location of this discovery are unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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Civil Parish SNETTISHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

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Boulder Clay, Cissbury, and Polished types (Neolithic polished axeheads and tools), formerly at Ruskin School.
Heacham. ?Some transferred to Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in 1951 from Sedgewick Museum. Other flints Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography 52.209, some have locations see other records; some from Park Farm.
See (S2).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Snettisham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 399.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Unknown. [unknown title]. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. [unknown volume].
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 19 2013 4:44PM

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