NHER 12505 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint blade and Mesolithic flint axe

Pre 1930. Stray Find.
In 1930 J. Reid Moir reported a "polished hand-axe" that had been found "…upon the surface of a ploughed field situated on the top of the cliff, immediately to the east of West Runton Gap" (S1). This object is illustrated in (S1) and described as made of honey-coloured flint that was, in terms of its form and flaking, a "characteristic ovate hand-axe". Wymer (S2) regarded this object as most likely "…a rough core made on the fragment of a ground Neolithic axe". According to (S3) this object was donated to the Ipswich Museum.
This object is also noted in (S4) and (S5).
Previously recorded under NHER 6355.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 July 2014.

Pre 1964. Stray Find.
Found by J. E. Sainty at [1]:
1 Mesolithic flint tranchet axe. Now lost? Information from (S6).
This object was reported by R. Jacobi and is listed in his records (S7) as a medium-sized axe/adze in grey flint that had been found in an "allotment opposite The Hedges". The Hedges was J. E. Sainty's house on the Cromer road.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 July 2014.

Before 26 November 2005. Stray Find.
1 undatable prehistoric small flint blade (patinated greyish white, with spotty iron staining) and 1 long narrow secondary flake (snapped at the distal end).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM).
E. Darch (NLA) 5 December 2005.