NHER 35852 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic and Neolithic/Early Bronze Age finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BERGH APTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
| Civil Parish | HELLINGTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Pre November 2000. Stray Find.
Found in fields surrounding cottage near TG 3075 0222:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Small ficron type. See drawing (S1).
1 Palaeolithic flint flake. See drawing (S2).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), November/December 2000. See descriptions in file. These discoveries were reported in (S3).
According to notes made by P. Robins, these finds are part of a large collection of artefacts recovered from the fields surrounding the above grid reference. These are apparently mostly Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. Only a small number of these finds have previously been recorded (see NHER 10307, NHER 10314 and NHER 10318).
K. Hinds, (NLA) 9 January 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 March 2014.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF76414 Illustration: Robins, P. 2000. Drawing of a Lower Palaeolithic incomplete ficron-type flint handaxe from Bergh Apton/Hellington. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF90833 Illustration: Robins, P. 2000. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint flake from Bergh Apton/Hellington. Paper. 1:1.
- <S3> SNF87987 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2002. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 149-162. p 150.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (3)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
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Record last edited
Apr 1 2022 10:15AM