NHER 8157 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint and stone axeheads and implements, Grange Cottage
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG21SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SPROWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
April 1970. Found in garden of Grange Cottage, formerly owned by C. R. A. Hammond, presumably collection thrown out.
These found at foot of tree.
Three flint axes, one flint adze, eight stone axes, one stone ?implement.
Another stone axe found 1ft (30cm) deep.
Petrology of 'implement' N.139 Olivine Dolerite (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
On southeast side of Salhouse Road in garden of the first house on the Norwich side of the Eiger Hotel, a fragment of a polished axe found in cutting a pipe trench, around May 1977.
Half an axe of mottled buff to chocolate brown flint, partially polished, (S2).
Information from A. J. Lawson (NAU).
Part of earlier collection?
A. Lawson (NAU).
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Sprowston.
- --- 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 21 SE 6.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF2434 Serial: 1970. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1970. No 17. p 14.
- <S1> SNF2471 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.
- <S2> SNF79888 Illustration: Lawson, A.. 1977. Drawing of half of a Neolithic flint axe.. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (4)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- WORKED OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
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Record last edited
Jun 16 2016 11:34AM