NHER 13055 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG23NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | TRIMINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1977. Stray Find.
Found while digging garden:
1 Palaeolithic fine triangular flint handaxe with blue-white patina. 120mm long, 61mm wide at butt. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1978.36).
Information from (S1).
This handaxe is also noted in (S2), (S3) and (S4) although no additional information is given. Also mentioned in (S5).
This object was later examined by P. Robins (NCM) who noted that typologically there is no doubt that this is a handaxe and that the low level of patination (white over a grey flint) and unrolled condition must be related to the local conditions in which it had been maintained. See description in file and drawing (S6).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 June 2014.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S2> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 32.
- <S3> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 48.
- <S4> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22520.
- <S5> SNF82360 Unpublished Document: Yardley, C. J. 2011. The Mun Valley: Historic landscape Assessment and Landscape Character Assessment for Norfolk Coast Project. p 12.
- <S6> SNF91768 Illustration: Robins, P. 1997. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Trimingham. Paper. 1:1.
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 7 2016 3:09PM