NHER 496 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint find, Lawson Road

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Summary

Part of a Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in 1972.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG21SW
Civil Parish NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

Map

1972. Stray Find.
Found on Lawson Road at approximately TG 2335 2517 (about No 86):
1 Neolithic polished flint axehead, broken and then rechipped. Some of original polished cutting edge remains. Poor quality flint, does not flake well. See drawing Drawn 1972 (S1). See file NCM.
Found in back garden (exact house not known).
W. Milligan (NCM).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 February 2018.

  • --- Illustration: Clough, T. 1972. Drawing of a broken and rechipped Neolithic polished flint axehead. Card. 1:1.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 SW 43.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Neolithic.
  • <S3> Serial: 1972. Council for British Archaeology, Group 7: Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1972. No 19. p 7.
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Feb 12 2018 6:10PM

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