NHER 57962 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Lower Palaeolithic handaxe (Pentney, poorly located; Narborough, poorly located)

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Summary

In about 1972 a Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found "in or around" Pentney.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish NARBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
Civil Parish PENTNEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1972. Stray Find.
Found in or around Pentney c. 1972:
1 Lower Palaeolithic very large flint handaxe, possibly made on flake. At 210mm long this is one of the largest handaxes found in Norfolk. This object was shown to the staff of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), who have provided photographs.
Resubmitted to HES for further study in 2013 and recorded on PAS database [1]. See drawing (S1).
E. Darch (HES), 9 August 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2013 and August 2022.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2013. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Pentney. Film. 1:1.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 600000 BC to 250001 BC)

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Record last edited

Aug 20 2022 1:29PM

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