NHER 9534 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint chisels and axehead
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | EARLHAM, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Full Description
'Gipsy Lane - Earlham Road end (G. Rye's site E)'. On R. R. Clarke's (NCM) card listing Neolithic sites in Earlham. Gipsy Lane is centred 205 085, both ends join Earlham Road, but E. B. Green (NCM) believes eastern is probably meant.
F. Healy's (NAU) thesis under this county number gives 'Polished flint chisel and chipped flint chisel NCM 97.937'.
However NCM accession book under that number has 'two flint implements from Earlham Estate (one is rechipped polished axe from near Gipsy Lane, Norwich 1937'. So there is no certainty that the two were found together, and only a possibility that one was found on Rye's site E which must be pre-housing.
Drawing (S1) in the Illustration Library.
Information from E. B. Green (NCM).
E. Rose (NAU) 15 July 1983.
The 1885 first edition 25in map of Norwich shows an un-named lane on the course of the eastern section of Gypsy Lane, continuing to the northwest. The western section of the present Gypsy Lane is marked only as a footpath. This seems to confirm that it is the eastern end that is meant, at the present Fiveways roundabout.
E. Rose (NLA) 26 October 1993.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Earlsham.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF79273 Illustration: Unknown. 1983. Drawing of a Neolithic rechipped polished axe.. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (2)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
May 20 2014 9:49AM