NHER 2267 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe, Tottenhill Row (Tottenhill, poorly located)

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Summary

During the 1960s a Palaeolithic handaxes was found somewhere in the vicinity of Tottenhill Row. This object is now held by King's Lynn Museum.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish TOTTENHILL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre September 1962. Stray Find.
Found at Tottenhill Row (a small hamlet located at TF 629 120):
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Donated to King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1962.55).
Information from (S1). Although a grid reference is listed in the museum's records (TF 628 120) this is though to only indicate the general area in which this object was probably found.
This find is listed in Roe (S2) and is probably one of the five handaxes from Tottenhill in the King's Lynn Museum described in (S3). It is also noted in also noted in (S4) and (S5).
Compiled by R. J. Rickett (NLA), 12 March 1990. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 November 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 61 SW 10.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S2> Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 236.
  • <S3> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 42.
  • <S4> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. N&W-2, Nos. 11, 12 & 13.
  • <S5> Website: TERPS online database. Site 23072.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 16 2016 2:22PM

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