NHER 19551 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age part-polished flint axehead

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Summary

In 1983 (or before) a Palaeolithic flint handaxe and a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age part-polished flint axehead were found in this field. The latter appears to copy the form of Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axes.

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Map sheet TG03SE
Civil Parish BRISTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1983. Stray Find.
Found near Moor Hall by [1]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe with point missing and ?potlid flake off-centre of one side. See drawing (S1).
1 Neolithic part-polished, rechipped flint axehead. See drawing (S2).
Identified by E. B. Green (NCM) and compiled by S. Margeson (NCM), 14 September 1983.
Information from (S3).
These discoveries were reported in (S4). The handaxe is also listed on (S5) and in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.

Both objects were resubmitted to the Norwich Castle Museum in 2004 by [2]. See drawings (S8) (S9), photos (S10), and descriptions by P. Robins (NCM) in file. It is noted that the part-polished axehead is probably a copy of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axe.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Goodson, C. 1983. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Briston. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S10> Photograph: Darch, E.. 2004. Briston Axes.
  • <S2> Illustration: Goodson, C. 1983. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S3> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: 1984. Archaeological Discoveries for 1983. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 29 pp 17-33. p 25.
  • <S5> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Briston.
  • <S6> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 49.
  • <S7> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22533.
  • <S8> Illustration: Robins, P. 2004. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Briston. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S9> Illustration: Robins, P. 2004. Outline sketch of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age part-polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 6 2016 8:16PM

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