NHER 10472 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG40SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BELTON WITH BROWSTON, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
20 September 1931. Stray Find.
Found on heathland (Belton Common), about 1 furlong [200m] from the Round Hills and on the opposite side of the old trackway between Belton and Fritton (land surface here is plateau gravel):
1 Palaeolithic Acheulean hand-axe. Ovate type with wavy edge, 3 1/2" x 2 3/4" x 1 1/8" [8.9cm by 7cm by 3.8cm]. One side more rolled than the other.
This discovery was reported in (S1) and the object itself was subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1954.34).
Information from (S2).
This find is listed in (S3) and recorded in (S4) as unrolled and with a worn white patina suggestive of it being a surface find. It is also noted on (S5) and in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2014.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF8031 Newspaper Article: Eastern Evening News (Rumbelow, P. E.). 1931. A Paleo from Belton, Suffolk. 3 October.
- <S2> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. Belton with Browston.
- <S3> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 262.
- <S4> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 71.
- <S5> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Belton with Browston (Belton Common).
- <S6> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-6, No.2.
- <S7> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22667.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
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Record last edited
Mar 6 2016 4:43PM