NHER 53980 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced ?Palaeolithic worked flints, Cromer beach (Cromer, poorly located)

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Summary

Potentially Palaeolithic worked flints known to have been recovered on Cromer Beach but exact provenances not recorded. These objects include a possible Palaeolithic bifacial implement found in the vicinity of the Henry Blogg Museum during a school trip in 2008. In 2009 a potentially Lower Palaeolithic rolled flint flake was found at an unknown location on the beach in Cromer.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	CROMER, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

November 2008. Stray Find.
Found on beach in vicinity of Henry Blogg Museum:
1 possible Palaeolithic flint biface.
This small ovate object was initially seen by staff at the Ipswich Museum who confirmed that it "…is very likely to be a flint tool". Photographs were seen by P. Robins (NCM), who noted that it was indeed potentially a genuine artefact, though small for a handaxe. It appears that the object itself has yet to be formally examined.
See correspondence and copies of photographes in file.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 August 2017.

Before 28 september 2009. Stray Find.
Casual find on Cromer beach, precise location unknown:
1 ?Lower Palaeolithic rolled flint flake.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 16 March 2010. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 June 2014.

Associated Sources (1)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 150001 BC?)

Object Types (2)

FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 60001 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Sep 1 2025 2:36AM