Record Details

NHER Number:16262
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Palaeolithic flint handaxe

Summary

In 1978 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on the edge of a recently cleared out drain.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3390 2405
Map Sheet:TG32SW
Parish:SMALLBURGH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

May 1978. Stray Find.
Found on edge recently cleared-out drain, west of Toad's Green Farm:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See outline sketch (S1) and photographs (S2).
Identified and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 15 May 1980.
Information from (S3).
Described on (S4) and in (S5) as an elongated ovate handaxe, Wymer Type FK, 14cm long. Also noted in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2014.

10 March 1987. Field Visit.
Site visited by J. J. Wymer. Spoil heaps and road line walked but no artefacts recovered.
See (S4) for description of geological deposits observed.
P. Watkins (HES), 31 January 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

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Milligan, W. 1980. Outline sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Smallburgh. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Photograph: 1978. Photographs of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Smallburgh. Black and white. Print.
<S3>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S4>Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Smallburgh.
<S5>Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 33.
<S6>Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. B&A-1, No.2.
<S7>Website: TERPS online database. Site 22523.

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