NHER 6312 (Find Spot record) - Possible Palaeolithic handaxe or core

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Summary

A possible Palaeolithic handaxe or core has been found in Sheringham. The exact location and circumstances of its discovery are uncertain.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Giant hand axe, natural in all probability.
(S1), (S2), (S3).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Looks humanly made - like a large core.
Informant [1] says Clactonian.
Seen by E. Rose (NAU).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous Prehistoric.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Sheringham.
  • <S1> Serial: 8 June 1935. Nature.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Moir, J. Reid. 1934. A Giant Hand-axe from Sheringham, Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VII Pt III pp 327-332.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Hawkes, C. and Hawkes, J. 1934. Prehistoric Britain in 1934. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCI pp 301-329. p 303.
  • CORE (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 10001 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 13 2018 2:28AM

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