Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11481 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe, under cliff (Hopton on Sea, marginal) |
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Summary
The British Museum holds a Palaeolithic flint handaxe that was found at the base of the cliffs at Hopton on Sea during the early 20th century. The excact location of this discovery is not known.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1915. Stray Find.
Found by [1] under cliff at Hopton on Sea:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Held by British Museum (1933,0406.64). Described as a "double-sided handaxe of unusual form" on (S1).
Listed in (S2) and described on (S3) and in (S4) as an ovate handaxe in sharp but sea-rolled condition. It is also listed in (S5), (S6) and (S7).
It is recorded in (S5) and (S6) that the object was found in 1915, at a depth of 1.30m (the the source of this information is not clear). Although the grid reference TG 535 001 is given in (S2), it appears that this is only an approximate position. This grid reference is incorrectly listed as TG 535 010 in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2014.
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: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. Hopton on Sea. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 231. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Hopton-on-Sea. |
| <S4> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 71. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-6, No.3. |
| <S6> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23091. |
| <S7> | Article in Serial: Robins, P., Wymer, J. J. and Parfitt, S. 2008. Handaxe Finds on the Norfolk Beaches. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt III pp 412-415. p 415. |
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