NHER 7669 (Find Spot record) - Potentially Mesolithic flint axehead
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG22SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | TUNSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1959. Stray Find.
About 500 yards (152m) south-southeast of church:
1 prehistoric broken chipped flint axehead and 1 unfinished chipped implement. Found together? Information from (S1). Both objects were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1959.205). These implements were amongst a number of objects examined by R. Jacobi, who identified by the broken axehead as potentially Mesolithic. The small unfinished core tool was thought to be of later (?Neolithic) date.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 October 2014.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF87124 Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 5.
- <S1> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Tunstead.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (2)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
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Record last edited
Apr 18 2023 12:44PM