NHER 20540 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axeheads, adze and quern fragment
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG31SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WOODBASTWICK, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
April-June 1984. Field west of School Hill. Intensive fieldwalking after sowing.
Scatter of worked flints all over field.
Half a polished stone axe from centre of field. Flint adze at 3582 1416.
Finds held by NCM, formerly by member of the public [1].
W. F. Milligan (NCM) 20 June 1984.
Around 1950. From northeast corner of field.
Very fine quality Neolithic polished flint axe few areas not as well polished as remainder, and slightly assymetrical. Pale flint with ironstain trails. 15cm long x 5.5cm across blade and 2cm across butt.
Inf via [1], finder [2] though 'officially' belongs to his son.
May eventually donate to NCM.
Axe seen and measured and findspot recorded by E. Rose (NAU) 27 November 1985.
Spring 1988. East edge of field behind Meadow View; found in fieldwalking.
Flake from quern stone; flake from ?flint axe?; flake retouched as hollow scraper; retouched flake; two crude cores; core, burnt flake; scraper; twenty-seven flakes.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU).
Held by NCM, formerly by [1].
W. Milligan (NCM) 19 May 1988.
Associated Sources (1)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (4)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- QUERN (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
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Record last edited
May 2 2023 3:56PM