NHER 10673 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe

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Summary

An Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in Ellingham Park during the early 1940s.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM39SE
Civil Parish ELLINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Around 1944. Stray Find.
Found in Ellingham Park by [1]:
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe. "Acheulean (Group III)". Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1944.128).
Information from (S1).
Listed in (S2) and described on (S3) and in (S4) as pointed, in sharp condition and only slightly stained and patinated. This find is also noted in (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 February 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S2> Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 230.
  • <S3> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Ellingham (Ellingham Park).
  • <S4> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 71.
  • <S5> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. WNY-2, No.11.
  • <S6> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22704.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)

Record last edited

Feb 29 2016 12:27PM

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