NHER 1355 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe (Titchwell, poorly located)

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Summary

A Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in Titchwell at some time prior to 1930. Although the exact location of this discovery is not known it is recorded that it was recovered from a pit.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish TITCHWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre 1930. Stray Find.
The Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology holds a Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe that was found at Titchwell at some time prior to 1930 (1930.29).
Information from (S1).
The museum's records suggest that this object was found by B. Lowerison, the headmaster of the Ruskin School (Heacham) and an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist.
This handaxe is listed in (S2) and described by Wymer on (S3) and in (S4) as cordate, in sharp condition and patinated (suggesting it may be a subsoil find). Also listed in (S5) and (S6).
Although it is listed as unprovenanced in (S2) the museum's records suggest that this object was recovered from a gravel pit. There are few pits marked on the available cartographic sources, although if it was an early discovery it is possible that it came from a large feature marked as an old chalk pit of the 1st Edition O.S. map at TF 762 433.
E. Rose (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins, 22 December 2013.

  • --- 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 240.
  • <S3> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Titchwell.
  • <S4> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 17.
  • <S5> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 45.
  • <S6> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22414.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 6 2016 3:08PM

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