NHER 10339 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe, 42 Langley Green

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Summary

In 1965 half of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in this garden.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG30SE
Civil Parish	LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1965. Stray Find.
Found in front garden of 42 Langley Green by [1]:
1 Palaeolithic broken "Acheulian" flint handaxe (upper half). See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3) and it is also listed in (S4), which incorrectly lists its provenance as Loddon parish.
The handaxe is also noted on (S5) and in (S6), (S7) and (S8), although no additional information is given.
T. Clough (NCM). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2014.

Associated Sources (11)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SE 6.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF80177 Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1965. Drawing of a broken Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Langley.. Card. 1:1.
<S2> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
<S3> SNF2366 Serial: 1965. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1965. No 12. p 4.
<S4> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 235.
<S5> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Langley with Hardley.
<S6> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 71.
<S7> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-5, No.1.
<S8> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22664.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

Object Types (1)

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Langley with Hardley (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jun 20 2016 9:52AM