NHER 62159 (Find Spot record) - Lower Palaeolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age finds

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Summary

Between 2021 and 2022 a Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe and a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake were found along this section of the foreshore

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG50SW
Civil Parish HOPTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

The Finds detailed below were recovered from the northernly foreshore of Hopton Beach, Hopton-on-Sea. The locations of these finds are not always accurate. Any specific locational details are included with their description.

IND20062016AM. [1].

Before 23 July 2021. Stray Find. [2].
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to this whole section of foreshore. Previously mapped as a point at [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 12 September 2023.

October 2022. Metal-detecting. [4].
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake.
Information from PAS import.
P. Beers (HES), 16 June 2023 and P. Watkins (HES), 9 March 2024.

Associated Sources (0)

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150000 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Mar 17 2024 9:30AM

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