NHER 22434 (Find Spot) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe (Harling, poorly located)
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Full Description
Pre 1986. Stray Find.
Found in the 'Harling area', but details forgotten by informant [1]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Nosed and thick butted, of brown flint and of good quality but with section broken off nose in recent (but not very recent) times. Length 152mm, width (butt) 85mm (nose) and 35mm (below break). See outline sketch in file (S1).
Seen and identified by E. Rose 16 April 1986. Information from (S2).
This object is also noted on (S3) and in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given.
P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2013.
Associated Sources (6)
- <S1> SNF92157 Illustration: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S3> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Harling ("area").
- <S4> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 99.
- <S5> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22724.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
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 4 2016 12:02PM