NHER 13831 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic handaxes, other prehistoric worked flints and Late Saxon pottery
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF62SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SOUTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1977. Stray Find.
Found on surface in garden:
1 Palaeolithic small flint hand-axe, slightly rolled. Noted in (S1), (S2) and (S3).
Flint flake, worked flakes, scrapers and arrowheads.
2 Late Saxon Thetford-type Ware rim sherds. In soil near east boundary.
Information from (S4).
Grid reference amended from TF 6400 2335 to TF 6402 2331.
A. Cattermole (HES), 13 May 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 August 2014.
Before April 2011. Stray find.
1 undatable prehistoric flint core/trial piece and 1 bladelet.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
E. Darch (HES), 21 June 2011.
Before 12 July 2011. Stray Find.
1 Lower Palaeolithic small handaxe made on pebble. See drawing (S5). It has been confirmed with the finder that this is a different and more recent find to that reported in 1977.
1 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic blade-like flake.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
E. Darch (HES), 16 January 2012.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 14.
- <S2> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 120.
- <S3> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 23080.
- <S4> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S5> SNF83901 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2011. Drawing of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe from South Wootton. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (10)
- ARROWHEAD (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
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Record last edited
Jul 22 2020 3:14PM