Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14308 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe and Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints |
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Summary
Fieldwalking here in 1978 and 1984 recovered a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic flint borer and a number of undatable prehistoric flint flakes and blades.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1317 1255 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Autumn 1978. Stray Find.
From south side of field, ploughed:
Undatable prehistoric worked flints. Mostly waste flakes, but some back blades from prepared core in light grey flint.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
1984. Fieldwalking.
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. A good example of an Acheulean handaxe. See sketch (S2).
1 Neolithic borer. Large primary flint flake made into boring tool by two notches.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) 14 August 1984 and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 15 August 1984.
Information from (S1).
The handaxe is also sketched on (S3) and noted in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- BORER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1984. Sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Ringland. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Ringland. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-2, No.11. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22586. |
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