Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11344 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe. |
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Summary
A crude Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found here in 1976.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6398 2491 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF62SW |
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| Parish: | NORTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find.
Found by [1]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe, crude, ironstained. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was reported in (S3) and is also noted on (S4) and in (S5), (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
E. Rose (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 December 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 62 SW 54. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T. 1976. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from North Wootton. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1976. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1976. No 23. p 23. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. North Wootton. |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 14. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. 120-121. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23082. |
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