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Name:Neolithic to Bronze Age Axes and Hammer, Cliff House Farm, Hackthorn
HER Number:MLI51489
Type of record:Find Spot

Summary

One complete and two fragmentary Neolithic to Bronze Age transition polished stone axes and part of a perforated axe-hammer.

Grid Reference:SK 978 805
Map Sheet:SK98SE
Parish:HACKTHORN, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

One complete and two fragmentary polished stone axes and part of a perforated axe-hammer, found in 1952 during ploughing on land to the south-west of Cliff House Farm. The finds were thought to date to the Neolithic to Bronze Age transition period and are now in Lincoln Museum. {1}{2}{3}{4}


<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Card Index, SK 98 SE: 1 (Index). SLI2344.

<2> Lincolnshire County Council, Sites and Monuments Record Card Index, SK 98 SE: F (Index). SLI2881.

<3> City and County Museum Collection, LCNCC 1952.27-30 (Artefact). SLI8.

<4> THOMPSON, F.H., 1954, Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers, p.77 (Article in Serial). SLI509.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HAMMER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)

Sources and further reading

<1>Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 98 SE: 1.
<2>Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. SK 98 SE: F.
<3>Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LCNCC 1952.27-30.
<4>Article in Serial: THOMPSON, F.H.. 1954. Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. p.77.