NHER 20895 (Find Spot record) - Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade

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Summary

A Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade was found here in 1984. This is one of many such pieces to have been recovered from the Titchwell foreshore; see NHER 15352 for further details.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF74NE
Civil Parish TITCHWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

8 February 1984. Stray Find:
Picked up from beach below high water mark:
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic flint long blade. Length 20.5cm; width varying, maximum 5.5cm. Roughly triangular in section. Grey flint masked by iron staining and final, almost overall black 'peat' patina. Edge damage but no secondary working. See drawing (S1).
Identified and drawn by J.J. Wymer (NAU). Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3) and is also listed in (S4). The illustration of this blade is reproduced in (S5), which details the large assemblage of Late Upper Palaeolithic flints that had been recoverd from the beach at Titchwell.
E.M. James (KLM), 29 October 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 December 2013.

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  • <S1> Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1984. Drawing of a Late Upper Palaeolithic flint long blade from Titchwell. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S2> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: 1985. Archaeological Discoveries for 1984. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 30 pp 23-36. p 30.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: Robins, P. and Wymer, J. 2006. Late Upper Palaeolithic (Long Blade) Industries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 86-95. p 93.
  • <S5> Article in Serial: Wymer, J. J. and Robins, P. A. 1994. A Long Blade Industry beneath Boreal peat at Titchwell, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 13-37. Fig 11; No 23.
  • BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)

Record last edited

Nov 18 2014 12:39PM

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