NHER 19505 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic flint blades and Bronze Age shaft-hole adze
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF72NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | ANMER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Various prehistoric finds recovered in Osier Carr:
28 August 1983. Stray Find.
On surface of disturbed ground where trees had been removed, presumably within the last few years in order to increase the area of arable. Ground under stubble but recent tree-cutting (not uprooting) had disturbed it:
Half a Bronze Age shaft-hole adze made of a fine-grained sandstone. Break is ancient. See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2).
Found by [1] in company with J. Wymer (NAU). See note in (S3).
This dolerite object is now held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1983.316) and was recently subjected to non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation (S4).
J. Wymer (NAU), 21 September 1983. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.
15 October 1995. Stray Find.
Found by [2] on surface on edge of NHER 3520:
2 Mesolithic blades, 1 broken. 2 waste flakes.
Previously recorded under NHER 3520
E. Rose (NLA) 1 December 1995.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF78744 Illustration: Wymer, J. 1983. Drawing of a Bronze Age shaft-hole adze from Anmer. Card. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF9429 Photograph: CXS 14 (site and finder).
- <S3> SNF89266 Unpublished Document: Wymer, J. J. Journal. No 7. p 121.
- <S4> SNF90756 Article in Serial: Williams-Thorpe, O., Webb, P. C. and Jones, M. C. 2003. Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol 30 pp 1237-1267.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (3)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- ADZE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Nov 19 2025 8:51AM