NHER 45427 (Find Spot) - ?Upper Palaeolithic flint blade

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Summary

Metal detecting in 2006 recovered a flint blade of possible Upper Palaeolithic date.

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Map sheet	TM08SE
Civil Parish	ROYDON (NEAR DISS), SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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May/June 2006. Metal detecting.
Prehistoric, possibly Late Upper Palaeolithic, flint blade.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file. Discovery reported in (S1). Digital image available via PAS.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 July 2006.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF88164 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2007. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2006. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt II pp 250-261. p 250.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)

Object Types (1)

BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)

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Roydon (near Diss) (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 7 2014 9:08AM