NHER 24079 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axe hammer

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Summary

A Neolithic axe hammer was found in a heap of stones collected from this area for road making.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00SW
Civil Parish DEOPHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre 1987. Stray Find.
Found "two or three years" before 1987. From heap of stones for roadmaking collected in area of TG 038 007:
1 Neolithic axe hammer. Petrology N291. See drawing (S1).
Information from [1].
W. Milligan (NCM), 5 October 1987.

February 2000.
Axehammer seen sitting in fireplace in Crown Farm.
E. Rose (NLA), February 2000.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1987. Drawing of a Neolithic stone axe hammer. Paper. 1:1.
  • AXE HAMMER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Aug 4 2014 6:22PM

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