Find Spot record 3674/0/1 - Neolithic finds

A Neolithic polished stone axe found in the garden of 18 High Street and presented to the Museum.

{1} Part of a stone axe of porphorytic basalt has been found at SP 835760

{2} A Neolithic polished stone axe found in the garden of 18 High Street. A thin section by Prof Shotton of Birmingham University shows the axe to be of porphyritic basalt from Northern Ireland/ West Scotland. Gives grid ref. as SP835 760 but grid ref. of No. 18 High Street is SP8338 7570.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.12 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<1> HYLTON T.; MASTERS P., 1998, Empingham to Hannington Anglian Water Pipeline, Northamptonshire Section, Archaeological Evaluation: Stage 1, (checked) (Report). SNN63049.

<2> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1970, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1969 (Prehistoric), 4/2 (checked) (Article). SNN28659.

<3> Northampton Museum Records, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

Record last edited

Jan 10 2024 1:52PM