NHER 13024 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic 'bout coupe' flint handaxe and Neolithic flint knife

In about 1976. Stray Find.
Found by [1] in unknown circumstances:
1 Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe.
This discovery was reported in (S1), which records the findspot as being at TF 6397 2490. It should however be noted that an undated letter from [2] to A. Lawson (NAU) (discovered by J. Wymer (NAU) in 1988) states that the handaxe was found "beyond the trees" at TF 653 252 (in Castle Rising parish). This grid reference would indeed place the find beyond Wootton Carr, suggesting that the grid reference given by (S1) should be treated as very approximate. Information from (S2).

As noted in (S3) this is a bout coupé handaxe, a form usually dated to the early Devensian glacial stage and associated with Late Middle Palaeolithic Mousterian-type industries. See photographs (S4) in file and tracing (S5) (drawn from the photographs). It is clear from the photographs that this object is in extremely good condition.
This find is also noted on (S6) and in (S7), although in the latter although its provenance is wrongly given as South Wootton Common (the result of a misreading of the grid reference given in (S3)). This confusion is probably the reason a duplicate record that was wrongly created at this location (NHER 28093, now revoked). The handaxe is also noted (with its correct provenance) in (S8) and (S9), although no additional information is given. It is also listed as a potentially Middle Palaeolithic implement in (S10) and (S11).

A Neolithic flint knife was also found in this location; see (S4) and (S5). The plan supplied by the finder also has 'flint core and scrapers found' written to southwest of the Carr, but no grid reference is given.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 November 1988. Information from (S2).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 December 2013.