NHER 9123 (Monument record) - Neolithic polished flint axehead and site of post-medieval brickworks

1942 or before.
Broken polished Neolithic flint axe.
Label says found at 'Fir Lodge, Suton Road where is an old brick kiln'. But Fir Lodge is in Station Road while The Firs is on Suton Road.
See (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

1982. Grid reference located.
In fact, there is no Suton Road and The Firs is on Besthorpe Road (alias Norwich Road). But members of Mrs Rickett's (NAU) Worker's Education Association Class at Attleborough confirm that [1] owned the houses in Station Road. None of these is now called Fir Lodge, but the site of the brick kiln is marked on the 1906 Ordance Survey map (S2) in what is now called New North Road, a back alley to Station Road. The kiln site itself is now covered by The Bungalow and Numbers 19 to 20, and these houses were built about the 1940s. The rest of the brickworks is now a wood known as The Orchard. Before this, the kiln was at the end of the garden of the house now called Fairland in Station Road, which may be the former Fir Lodge.
E. Rose (NAU) 17 March 1982.