NHER 58863 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxes and flakes (Southacre, poorly located)

Palaeolithic objects known to have been recovered in Southacre parish, but with no further information regarding provenance. These finds are likely to have been recovered at either the Bartholomew's Hills pits (NHER 4099) or the Thorpe Pits to the north (NHER 4097).

FINDS IN THE KING'S LYNN MUSEUM

This museum holds a collection of poorly provenanced Palaeolithic objects from Southacre, comprising 10 handaxes, 2 cleavers and 1 flake - found by [1] prior to 1967 (KILLM : 1966.40).
Noted on (S1) and likely to have been included by Wymer in the quatifications given for the main Southace sites in (S2) (which he considered as a single assemblage). These obects were most likely from the Thorpe Pits, although this finder is also not mentioned in the records for either this site.

OTHER FINDS

1968. Stray find.
According to (S3) a flint handaxe was found by [2] at an unspecified location in Southacre at some time during 1968. This object is described as being pear-shaped and "unusually fine". The circumstances in which this object was discovered are not recorded and its present whereabouts are unknown.

Pre November 1986. Stray Find.
In 1986 J. J. Wymer identified 3 handaxe from Southacre that were in the possession of [3] at [4]. The exact provenance of these objects was not clear and the circumstances of their discovery were presumably also unknown.
See notes and brief descriptions on (S1). It appears that these object were not previously recorded by the NHER.

P. Watkins (HES), 13 June 2013.