NHER 465 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead, Carrow Works

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Summary

In 1887 a Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead was found at Carrow Works. This was found within peat at a considerable depth below the surface.

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Map sheet	TG20NW
Civil Parish	NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

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February 1887. Stray find.
Found at Carrow works:
1 Mesolithic pick. 10" [25cm] long. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum by R. J. Colman in 1919 (NWHCM : 1919.3). Information from (S1). See photograph in file (S2).
Exhibited at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia on 11 March 1919, when it was described as having been found "20 ft. below the floor level of the sawmill at Carrow, beneath peat, in February 1887" (S3).
This implement is listed as listed as as a heavy tranchet axehead in (S4) and is described in detail in (S5) (in which it is also listed as a tranchet axehead).

The location of this discovery has been corrected to TG 2450 0751, where a sawmill is clearly marked on the 1st edition OS map (record previously centred at TG 2407 0758).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 July 2014.

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NW 270.
<S1> SNF87217 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Mesolithic.
<S2> SNF91924 Photograph: Ashley, H. Photograph of a Mesolithic flint implement from Carrow Works. Black & white. print.
<S3> SNF1610 Article in Serial: 1919. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol III Pt I (for 1918-19) pp 162-164. p 163.
<S4> SNF8776 Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 211.
<S5> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10176.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Object Types (1)

TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 9 2018 11:18AM