NHER 16262 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG32SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SMALLBURGH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
May 1978. Stray Find.
Found on edge recently cleared-out drain, west of Toad's Green Farm:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See outline sketch (S1) and photographs (S2).
Identified and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 15 May 1980.
Information from (S3).
Described on (S4) and in (S5) as an elongated ovate handaxe, Wymer Type FK, 14cm long. Also noted in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2014.
10 March 1987. Field Visit.
Site visited by J. J. Wymer. Spoil heaps and road line walked but no artefacts recovered.
See (S4) for description of geological deposits observed.
P. Watkins (HES), 31 January 2016.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF78941 Illustration: Milligan, W. 1980. Outline sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Smallburgh. Card. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF91545 Photograph: 1978. Photographs of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Smallburgh. Black and white. Print.
- <S3> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S4> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Smallburgh.
- <S5> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 33.
- <S6> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. B&A-1, No.2.
- <S7> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22523.
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
Jan 31 2016 7:25PM