NHER 4023 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axehead

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Summary

A Neolithic polished stone axehead.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Polished stone axe (greenstone) with bevelled edge.
13.9cm long by 4.4cm by 2.7cm.
See (S1) (Maori type) but probably genuine.
See (S2).
R. R. Clarke (NCM) and T. Clough (NCM)

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Castle Acre.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. p 113.
  • <S2> 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. N.11. Geol Survey Eng. 1399.
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 9 2013 5:06PM

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