NHER 2163 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axehead

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Summary

A Neolithic flint axehead was found on Fulmodestone Common in 1808.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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Civil Parish FULMODESTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

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1808. Fulmodestone Common.
Chipped flint axe dug up from Fulmodeston Common at time of enclosure (1808). 15cm (6 inches) long.
Exhibited at Archaeological Institute 1847.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

(S1) calls 'two stone celts'.
E. Rose (NLA).

  • --- Article in Monograph: 1851. Catalogue of Antiquities. Exhibited in the Museum formed during the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute, held at Norwich, in 1847. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City. Archaeological Institute. pp xxiii-lvi. p xxv.
  • --- Publication: Add. MSS. 23.030 f.154.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Fulmodeston.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Publication: 1842. Collectanta Norfolciensis. NRO.
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2013 11:20AM

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