NHER 41891 (Find Spot record) - Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe

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Summary

A Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found here in 2005.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF80NE
Civil Parish HOLME HALE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Before April 2005. Stray Find.
Brought in on 'Fabulous Finds Day', held Saturday 30 April 2005:
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Small thin example, made on a pebble of brown flint. Mininal patination and only slightly rolled. See drawing (S1).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), May 2005. See full description in file.
E. Darch (NLA), 24 June 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), May 2013.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Robins, P. 2005. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Holme Hale. Paper. 1:1.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 12 2019 4:44PM

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