NHER 1261 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint artefacts

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Summary

A collection of Neolithic flint artefacts found in Hunstanton, possibly including an axehead The exact location and nature of its discovery are uncertain.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

List of 'Sandy Site Type' flints given in (S1) mentions some from Hunstanton in Le Strange collection at Hunstanton Hall. These could not be found in 1949, but the reference could be to the flint axe from Hunstanton Cliff which Le Strange had, found before 1864.
[1] thought this could be the same as the one he gives under Thornham - R.R. Clarke (NCM).
E. Rose (NAU).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hunstanton.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> 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 401.
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2013 4:49PM

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