NHER 1810 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint axehead (Wells next the Sea, poorly located)

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Summary

The Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology holds a Neolithic flint axehead found at an unknown location in Wells next the Sea parish some time prior to or during 1890.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish WELLS NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1890 or before. Stray Find.
In 1890 the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (then the museum of Archaeology and Ethnography) acquired a Neolithic flint implement that had been found at an unrecorded location in Wells next the Sea parish (1890.126; AR 1890.5). This had previously been in the collection of Colonel H. W. Feilden and is described in the museum's records as a 'small flint celt'. Its acquisition is noted in (S1).
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 February 2021.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Serial: 1891. Cambridge University Reporter. p 496.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Wells next the Sea.
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Feb 14 2021 8:44AM

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