NHER 19556 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axehead

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Summary

A Neolithic axehead, made of flint.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG13SW
Civil Parish CORPUSTY AND SAXTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

About 1956. Stray Find.
Field by river:
1 Neolithic light grey flint axe, part polished. See drawing (S1).
Identified E. B. Green (NCM)
S. Margeson (NCM) 14 September 1983.

This object was resubmitted to the Norwich Castle Museum in 2004. See description by P. Robins (NCM) in file and (S2). Although initially recorded as being found somewhere on the land of Pewit Farm (Briston; NHER 40267) it is clearly the axehead from Corpusty that was drawn in 1983.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

  • --- Photograph: Darch, E.. 2004. Briston Axes.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Goodson, C. 1983. Drawing of a Neolithic part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S2> Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 30 2014 4:17PM

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