NHER 25800 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic or Bronze Age macehead

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Summary

A shaft hole implement with an hour-glass perforation was found in a garden in Beech Close. It could be interpreted as a Neolithic or Bronze Age large mace head or a small battleaxe. It is worn on one end where it seems to have been used as a hammer.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91NE
Civil Parish BEETLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

July 1990. Stray Find.
A stone implement was recovered from a flower bed in the front garden of the fifth house on the left (fourth semi-detached house) in Beech Road, New Beetley when coming from main road. It had been noted in the garden, slowly emerging from the soil for some weeks. The item was identified as a shaft-hole implement with an hour-glass perforation of brownish-white stone (124mm x 67mm, perforation 43mm maximum width). It could be described as large macehead or a small battleaxe. One end is much battered, suggesting use as hammer.
See drawing (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 31 July 1990.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Robins, P. 1990. Drawing of a Neolithic/Bronze Age perforated stone macehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • BATTLEAXE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • MACE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 22 2018 9:52AM

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