NHER 7196 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead, Late Bronze Age hammer, Iron Age coin and post-medieval metal objects
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG02SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FOXLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1969. Stray Find.
Found on surface by [1] at approximately [2]:
1 Mesolithic chipped flint axe. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1969.392 : A). Information from (S1). This object was previously incorrectly recorded by both the NCM and the NHER as Neolithic. Listed as a miscellaneous axehead in (S2) but described in (S3) as a tranchet axehead.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 August 2014.
October 2003. Metal-detecting. [3].
1 Late Iron Age gold coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Cattermole (HES), 18 August 2011.
August-September 2008. Metal-detecting.
Late Bronze Age socketed hammer (S4).
Post-medieval crotal bell.
See list in file.
Site extended - previously mapped as a point at [2].
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 October 2008.
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. TG 02 SW 15.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF2413 Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 6.
- <S1> SNF87256 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. Foxley.
- <S2> SNF8776 Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 206.
- <S3> SNF90074 Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10242; 10243.
- <S4> SNF79943 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2008. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed copper alloy hammer.. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (5)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- HAMMER (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Late Iron Age - 50 BC to 0 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2024 3:18PM