NHER 5715 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe, near Croxton Park (Thetford, poorly located)

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Summary

At some time prior to 1904 a Palaeolithic handaxe was found near to Croxton Park.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Pre 1904. Stray Find.
Found by Croxton park before 1904:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe.
This discovery is recorded in the notes of W. G. Clarke (S1). Possibly the "Chellean Acheulean" site mentioned in (S2).
Information from (S3).
This find is also noted in (S4), on (S5) and in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.

Croxton Park was a small landscape park that lay to the east of Croxton Park House (NHER 15055, TL 859 881), immediately to the east of the Thetford parish boundary. The fact that this find is recorded as having been found in Thetford parish would suggest that it was found somewhere to the west of the park, perhaps in one of the many quarry pits that can be seen in this area on the 1st Edition O.S map.

Amended and expanded by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2013.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF5243 Publication: Clarke, W.G.. Ms 126.
<S2> SNF5888 Monograph: Ebert, M. 1926. Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte [Lexicon of History]. Vol IV. p 336.
<S3> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
<S4> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 240.
<S5> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Thetford (Croxton Park).
<S6> SNF88239 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. LLO-3, No.17.
<S7> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22801.

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

Mar 4 2016 11:50AM