NHER 5305 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxes, Hockwold Heath (Hockwold cum Wilton, poorly located)

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Summary

Two Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxes reportedly found on 'Hockwold Heath' in 1962.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1962. Stray Find.
Found on surface of "Hockwold Heath" by F. Curtis.
2 Palaeolithic flint handaxes. Information from (S1).
This discovery was reported in (S2). The exact location of this findspot is not recorded, although it was presumably somewhere in the eastern part of the parish.

These finds are also listed in (S3) and noted on (S4) and in (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 November 2013.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
<S2> SNF87127 Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 3.
<S3> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 233.
<S4> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton.
<S5> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. LLO-4, No. 32.
<S6> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 23043.

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)

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Hockwold cum Wilton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Mar 6 2016 12:48PM