NHER 2911 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe

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Summary

In around 1970 a broken Palaeolithic handaxe was found during ploughing here. The handaxe had black staining.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL99SE
Civil Parish STOW BEDON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Around 1970. Stray Find.
Found during ploughing:
1 Palaeolithic broken "Acheulian" flint handaxe. Stained black (inner flint light brown).
Seen by A. J. Lawson (NAU), 1975. Information from (S1).
This find is noted on (S2) and also listed in (S3), (S4) and (S5), although no further details are given (the NHER having been the source of this information).
A. J. Lawson (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 April 2013.

  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Stow Bedon.
  • <S3> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 57.
  • <S4> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 103.
  • <S5> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22844.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 14 2022 8:19AM

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