NHER 1594 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic handaxe

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Summary

A Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in this field at some time prior to 1968. Few details are available and the present location of this find is not known.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF73NW
Civil Parish SEDGEFORD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

October 1966. Stray Find.
Found by [1] in [2]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe.
Listed in (S1). At this time it was in the possession of the finder [1] - its present whereabouts are unknown.
Information from (S2).
This handaxe is briefly described on (S3), suggesting it was subsequently seen by Wymer. The date of discovery is also given on (S3): October 1966. This find is also noted in (S4), (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given.
E. Rose (NLA). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 December 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 238.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S3> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Sedgeford.
  • <S4> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 13.
  • <S5> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 121.
  • <S6> Website: TERPS online database. Site 23090.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

Record last edited

May 24 2018 11:02AM

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