NHER 9321 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint axe and Bronze Age flint arrowhead

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Summary

In 1969 a Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead was recovered from somewhere in this locale. Later, in 1992, workmen laying the curb for a new road here discovered a partly polished Neolithic flint axe.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG10NE
Civil Parish EARLHAM, NORWICH, NORFOLK

Map

1969. Approximate findspot only. Found in sandpit or bunker.
Barbed and tanged flint arrowhead
Held by NCM.
Information from (S1).
E. B. Green (NCM).

March 1992. Stray Find.
Precise find spot unknown - may be redeposited. Handed to owner by workman laying curb stones for new road at UEA.
1 Neolithic partly-polished flint axehead. See drawing (S2).
Identified by P. Robins, see description in file.
J. A. Davies (NCM) 20 March 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 Janaury 2016.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 10 NE 61.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 5.
  • --- Unpublished Report: Hoggett, R. and Williamson, T. 2006. Forgotten Heritage: the landscape history of the Norwich suburbs. A pilot study.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Earlham.
  • <S2> Illustration: Robins, P. 1992. Drawing of Neolithic partially-polished flint axehead from Earlham. Paper. 1:1.
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 3 2016 10:58AM

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