NHER 18263 (Find Spot record) - Possible Palaeolithic flint handaxe fragment and Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG10NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
March 1980. Fieldwalking.
Found on drilled field by [1] (finder's Site No. 256a):
1 ?Palaeolithic flint ?handaxe butt.
11 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flakes, 1 scraper, 1 core, 1 blade and 2 chunks.
Identified and compiled by A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980.
Information from (S1).
Most (if not all) of these flints were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.23). The possible handaxe fragment is noted on (S2) and in (S3) and (S4), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.
Associated Sources (4)
- <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. Great Melton.
- <S3> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-3, No.6.
- <S4> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22608.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (6)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- DEBITAGE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Feb 13 2018 11:32AM