NHER 10599 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Mesolithic flint axehead, Hall Farm (Ditchingham, poorly located)

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Summary

A prehistoric flint axehead of probable Mesolithic date was found somewhere on Hall Farm (now known as Old Hall Farm) in 1934.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish DITCHINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1934. Stray Find.
Found somewhere on land of Ditchingham Hall Farm:
1 prehistoric flint axehead. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1934.114). Information from (S1). The precise location of this discovery is not recorded. The farm buildings associated with Ditchingham Hall Farm (now known as Old Hall Farm) are located at TM 3259 9215.

This object was originally recorded as potentially Neolithic and was listed in (S2). This object is however recorded as Mesolithic in R. Jacobi's records (S3). It is described as having a tranchet blow on one face.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 February 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Ditchingham.
  • <S2> Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. p 437.
  • <S3> Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10211.
  • TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 4 2016 12:18PM

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