NHER 8354 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe, Palling beach (Sea Palling, poorly located)

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Summary

Around 1906 a rolled Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on the beach at Sea Palling. The exact location of this find is not known.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	SEA PALLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

About 1906. Stray Find.
Found on beach by R. Johnson:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Given to A. C. Savin and later donated to Ipswich Museum. Subsequently passed to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1963.22). Information from (S1).
This find is noted in W. G. Clarke's records (S2) and is the reason that 'Palling' is listed in (S3) as having produced Palaeolithic material prior to 1907. The handaxe is illustrated in (S4) and described as a rolled and stained "well-made example of a platessiform, Chellian implement". Reid Moir believed that this object was probably derived from the same deposits as material that he had recovered from exposures at Cromer. This object is also noted in (S5) (which reproduces the illustrations from (S4)), (S6) and (S7).
It was later listed in (S8) and described by J. J. Wymer on (S9) and in (S10) as a very rolled, somewhat pointed, sub-cordate handaxe. It is also noted in (S11), (S12) and (S13), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 June 2014.

Associated Sources (14)

--- 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.
<S10> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 35.
<S11> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. pp 49-50.
<S12> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22547.
<S13> SNF81597 Article in Serial: Robins, P., Wymer, J. J. and Parfitt, S. 2008. Handaxe Finds on the Norfolk Beaches. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt III pp 412-415. p 415.
<S2> SNF5254 Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 126.
<S3> SNF1308 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 395.
<S4> SNF1648 Article in Serial: Moir, J. Reid. 1921. On an Early Chellian-Palaeolithic Workshop-Site in the Pliocene "Forest Bed" of Cromer, Norfolk. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol LI pp 385-418.
<S5> SNF1614 Article in Serial: 1922. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol III Pt IV (for 1921-22) pp 607-624. p 619.
<S6> SNF7162 Publication: Moir, J. Reid. 1927. The Antiquity of Man in East Anglia. pp 42-43.
<S7> SNF1806 Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 63.
<S8> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8.
<S9> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Sea Palling (No 1).

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

Object Types (1)

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Sea Palling (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Mar 8 2016 4:58PM