NHER 3313 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade core, near South Wootton Common (South Wootton, poorly located)

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Summary

In 1951 a flint blade core of probable Late Upper Palaeolithic date was found somewhere near South Wootton common.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish SOUTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1951. Stray Find.
Found by H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence near South Wootton Common (a large area centred at TF 665 230):
1 Upper Palaeolithic flint blade core. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1951.206.5 : A). Information from (S1).
Although this core is listed as Mesolithic in (S2), it is recorded as Late Upper Palaeolithic in (S3). It is also described in (S4), in which it is noted that it has 'toad belly' speckling and a degree of wear and pitting that is only observed on Pleistocene artefacts.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 December 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S2> Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 213.
  • <S3> 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 95.
  • <S4> Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 227.
  • BLADE CORE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)

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Record last edited

Oct 4 2018 3:18PM

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