NHER 2967 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead

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Summary

A Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead was found here in 1974.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00SW
Civil Parish CRANWORTH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1974. Stray Find.
Found on surface:
1 Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead. See drawing (S1).
E. Rose (NAU). Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 May 2013.

The mapped location of this record reflects the grid reference given on (S2), the previous location for this record ([1]) being presumable a misreading of these coordinates.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 May 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 00 SW 18.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gregory, T. 1975. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead from Cranworth. Card. 1:1.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic.
  • <S3> Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 3.
  • TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

May 31 2018 12:32PM

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