NHER 1932 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe and potentially Palaeolithic flint implement (North Creake, poorly located)

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Summary

In 1969 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found at an unknown location in North Creake. A potentially Palaeolithic flint flake or implement was recovered at an unrecorded location in around 2006.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1969. Stray Find.
Found by [1] at unknown site:
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3). It is described on (S4) and in (S5) and is also noted in (S6) and (S7).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 December 2013.

Before 22 May 2006. Metal-detecting. [2].
From unknown location in North Creake parish:
1 ?Palaeolithic worked flint.
Information from PAS import.
Although a six-figure grid reference is listed for this find it is only intended to indicate the approximate centre of the village rather than an actual find spot.
Previously recorded as NHER 59641.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 April 2013. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 September 2025.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Clough, T. 1969. Drawing of a Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe from North Creake. Card. 1:1.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S3> Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 4.
  • <S4> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. North Creake.
  • <S5> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 17.
  • <S6> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 45.
  • <S7> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22423.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 10001 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 1 2025 4:10AM

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