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| CHER Number: | 00802 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Perforated axe or hammer head, Alconbury |
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Summary
Part of a perforated axe or hammer head made by pecking from a grey stone, with hourglass perforation, thought to be Mesolithic.
| Grid Reference: | TL 184 760 |
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| Parish: | Alconbury, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds:
- HAMMERSTONE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Full description
1. (TL/185-/760-), Part of a BA hammer stone found at the Maltings, Alconbury. In Norris Museum, St Ives.
2. The Maltings is a street name and enquiries from the occupants and former occupants of the house in whose garden the find was made were fruitless.
Part of a perforated axe or hammer head made by pecking from a Grey stone, with hourglass perforation, now thought to be Me.
<1> 1960, OS 6" (Map). SCB16353.
<2> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 24/3/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Map: 1960. OS 6". |
| <2> | Verbal communication: Baird, J.. Field Investigator Comments. 24/3/71. |
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