NHER 15360 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic handaxe from next to former Cranberry Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL99SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1979. Fieldwalking.
Found on surface freshly planted with young trees next to former Cranberry Farm, on ground sloping down to base of former mere (at foot of abrupt slope up to west):
1 Palaeolithic pointed flint handaxe. Broken, heavily rolled and stained brown. See sketch (S1).
Identified by A.J. Lawson (NAU), 12 October 1979. Information from (S2). See finder's map (S3) in file.
This find was first reported in (S4) and is also listed in (S5), (S6) and (S7), although no additional is given. See (S8) for an additional brief description.
Subsequently donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.407.6)
See NHER 15361 for details of Mesolithic worked flints found during this work.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 April 2013.
1984.
'Some of finds' from this site, NHER 15197, 15359 and 15361 to 15363 said by finder to be in British Museum. See file letter in file for NHERs 15359-15363. It should however be noted that many of the finder's finds were donated to the NCM in 1992 and it is quite possible that material from this site was part of this collection.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 April 2013.
Associated Sources (9)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF89102 Illustration: [Unknown]. 1979. Sketch of a broken Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Hockham. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S3> SNF51276 Map: Finder's Map.
- <S4> SNF86318 Article in Serial: 1981. Archaeological Discoveries for 1979. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 26 pp 19-30. p 23.
- <S5> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 53.
- <S6> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. LLO-3, No.15.
- <S7> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22795.
- <S8> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Hockham.
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
Jan 31 2016 2:19PM