NHER 18483 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe, Setchey (West Winch, poorly located)

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Summary

The Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) holds a Palaeolithic handaxe that is recorded as having been found in a field at Setchey. The exact date and location of its discovery are unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

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

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Before 1982. Stray Find.
Found on surface of ploughed field at Setch[ey]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe ". Held by Ashmolean Museum (Loan 112).
Details from museum records (via A. Lawson).
Information from (S1).
This implement was examined by J. J. Wymer who described it on (S2) and in (S3) as a pointed handaxe in patinated condition. This find is also listed in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given.
It is unclear whether the Ashmolean still holds this object.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 August 2013.

Associated Sources (5)

<S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S2> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. West Winch (Setch).
<S3> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 43.
<S4> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. N&W-2, No. 14.
<S5> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 23073.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

Object Types (1)

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 22 2020 10:59AM