NHER 6368 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic polished flint axehead

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Summary

A Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in June 1900. The exact location and nature of its discovery are uncertain.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish BEESTON REGIS, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

June 1900. Near Beeston Regis Hall.
Half of a handaxe (19cm by 10cm by 5cm) (7.5in by 4in by 2in) was found when about to be built into modern wall. Actually laid in mortar when noticed. Original locality unknown. Pointed oval cross section.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

'Cumberland club' (S4).
Petrology N1: near Group VI.
T. Clough (NCM).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Beeston Regis.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: 1911. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt I (for 1909-1910) pp 109-121. p 118.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 406.
  • <S3> Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 126.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155.
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Sep 5 2013 11:16AM

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