NHER 2296 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic or Beaker axe hammer from Massingham Heath

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Summary

A Neolithic or Beaker axe hammer found in 1957.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF72SE
Civil Parish	GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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August 1957. Stray Find.
Found on Massingham Heath:
Neolithic/Early Bronze Age stone axe hammer. See drawing (S1).
Petrology N.66 Group XVIII. See (S2) and (S3). Geol. Survey Enquiry .2230.
Information from (S4). This discovery was reported in (S5)
Donated to King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1957.24).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2018.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 18.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF81312 Illustration: Mottram, A. S. 1957. Outline sketch of a Neolithic/Early Bronze Age stone axe hammer. Paper. 1:1.
<S2> SNF2471 Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155.
<S3> 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.
<S4> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Massingham (Great).
<S5> SNF2273 Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 3.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)

Object Types (1)

AXE HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Apr 25 2023 7:54AM