NHER 472 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint handaxe, Earlham Road

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Summary

In 1967 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was recovered on the surface "in a garden" on Earlham Road. This is recorded as having been found in the vicinity of 57 or 58 Earlham Road, although there appears to have been some confusion regarding the provenance of this object. It was initially described as having been found at 4 Earlham Road, which is adjacent to the Plantation Garden (NHER 26396): a former chalk quarry and therefore potentially a more likely provenance.

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Map sheet	TG20NW
Civil Parish	NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

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1967. Stray Find.
Found lying on surface "in garden" on Earlham Road:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3). The handaxe is also noted on (S4) and in (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given.
There appears to have been some confusion regarding the provenance of this object. It was originally recorded as being from 4 Earlham Road, this being subsequently changed to "57 or 58" - which is the provenance given by (S2). The reason for this is unclear, particularly as 57 and 58 are on opposite sides of the road and the former has no garden. It should also be noted that 4 Earlham Road lies adjacent to the Plantation Garden (NHER 26396), a former chalk quarry that was transformed into a garden during the 19th century.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 July 2014.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NW 184.
--- SNF2381 Serial: 1967. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1967. No 14. p 7.
<S1> SNF91922 Illustration: Milligan, W. 1967. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Earlham Road, Norwich. Card. 1:1.
<S2> SNF87216 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Palaeolithic.
<S3> SNF2381 Serial: 1967. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1967. No 14. p 7.
<S4> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Norwich (Earlham).
<S5> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-4, No.5.
<S6> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22622.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

Object Types (1)

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 14 2016 8:45AM