NHER 3751 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic polished flint axehead

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Summary

In 1893 a Neolithic polished axehead was found in East Walton. The exact location and nature of its discovery are uncertain.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish EAST WALTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Around 1893. Stray Find.
Found at unknown location in East Walton parish:
Fragmentary Neolithic polished flint axehead ("half a polished celt").
Noted in (S1) and (S2).
Ex Plowright Collection, now King's Lynn Museum (probably KILLM : 1992.603 (CBP 36), which is a broken flint axehead from East Walton recorded as having been acquired by Plowright in 1893)
Information from (S3) and museum records.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 June 2018.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Plowright, C. B. 1892. Neolithic Man in West Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol V Pt 3 (for 1891-92) pp 250-264. p 253.
  • <S2> Publication: Clarke, W.G.. 1910. Manuscript notes 126. 2.
  • <S3> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Walton (East).
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 25 2018 5:48PM

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