NHER 58489 (Find Spot record) - Early Upper Palaeolithic, Early Neolithic and post-medieval finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting in 2013 and 2024 recovered Early Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic worked flints and post-medieval coins.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG22NW
Civil Parish COLBY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

May-June 2013. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Early Upper Palaeolithic flint leaf point. See drawing (S1). Similar to examples in (S2).
1 ?Early Upper Palaeolithic flint tertiary nosed scraper.
1 Early Neolithic flint blade.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 August 2013.

February-March 2024. Metal-detecting. [2].
2 post-medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 24 April 2025.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2013. Drawing of an Early Upper Palaeolithic flint leaf point from Colby. Film. 2:1.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Jacobi, R. 2007. A Collection of Early Upper Palaeolithic Artefacts from Beeding, near Pulborough, West Sussex and the Context of Similar finds from the British Isles. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 73 pp 229-325.
  • POINT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 25001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 30001 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1560 AD to 1561 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1584 AD to 1584 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 22 2025 9:20AM

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