NHER 16010 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic handaxe
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF71NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | EAST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
About 1952. Stray Find.
Found by [1] "north of East Winch station in angle of road junction to Gayton".
Handaxe in grey flint, 17cm long. Information from (S1). This object is given to the King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1980.62) in 1980 by [2]. Also noted on (S2) and in (S3), (S4) and (S5) although these give no additional information.
R. Trett (KLM) April 1980. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2013.
Associated Sources (5)
- <S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S2> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. East Winch.
- <S3> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 41.
- <S4> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. N&W-2, No. 7.
- <S5> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 23068.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
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Record last edited
Mar 24 2021 7:48AM