Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14428 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe |
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Summary
In 1969 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was recovered from the ground surface here.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 641 239 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF62SW |
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| Parish: | NORTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1969. Stray Find.
'Camgate' site. Surface find by [1]:
1 small Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Now held by King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1969.81).
This discovery was reported in (S1). Information from (S2) and (S3).
This object was examined by J. J. Wymer and is described on (S4) and in (S5) as a very rolled pointed handaxe. It is also noted in (S6) and (S7), although it is incorrectly identified as an unprovenanced South Wootton find.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 December 2013 and 6 February 2016.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 11. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 62 SW 21. |
| <S3> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. 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 | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996.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. N&W-2, No. 19. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23077. |
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