NHER 9072 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe (Great Ellingham, poorly located)

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Summary

The Bolton Museum is recorded as holding a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from this parish. The location and circumstances of this discovery are not known.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Unknown date. Stray Find.
It is recorded in (S1) that the Bolton Museum holds an unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe from Great Ellingham.
Information from (S2).
This find is noted on (S3) as being a rough but unrolled handaxe, found "near Attleborough". It does not appear that the object was examined by Wymer - this information apparently being drawn from the records compiled for (S2).
This object is also noted in (S4), (S5) and (S6).
P. Watkins (HES), 10 April 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 231.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S3> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Great Ellingham.
  • <S4> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 57.
  • <S5> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 118.
  • <S6> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22862.
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 4 2016 11:55AM

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