NHER 4840 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Lower Palaeolithic handaxe, 'Mill Pond' (Methwold, poorly located)

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Summary

A Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found apparently found at 'Mill Pond, Methwold' in 1948. The exact nature and location of this discovery are unclear and the present whereabouts of the handaxe are also unknown.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

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

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1948. Stray Find.
From Methwold Mill Pond:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe in "Middle Acheulian style". See sketch (S1).
Information from record card (S2).

This handaxe would be classified as either a pointed or a ficron type (Wymer class F or M). The sketch records the handaxe as being held by the King's Lynn Museum and being originally from "Mill Pond, Methwold". Unfortunately no such object can be identified in the present museum records. The provenance of this object is similarly uncertain, as no location within this parish appears to have been known as 'Mill Pond' (although it should perhaps be noted that there is such a site in nearby Lakenheath). The only possibility is a small pond that lay at TL 754 945 (visible on the 1st Edition O.S map), close to an area that appears to have been known as Mill Hill (see NHER 4945).

This find is listed in (S3). It is also noted on (S4) and in (S5), (S6) and (S7) although no additional information is given.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 November 2013.

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF90194 Illustration: [Unknown]. 1949. Sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Methwold. Paper. 1:1.
<S2> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
<S3> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 235.
<S4> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Methwold (Mill Pond).
<S5> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 44.
<S6> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 108.
<S7> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 23047.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)

Object Types (1)

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Sep 17 2018 1:24PM