Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17936 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe roughout |
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Summary
Fieldwalking between 1978 and 1980 recovered a large worked flint that was probably a Palaeolithic handaxe roughout.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 167 061 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10NE |
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| Parish: | HETHERSETT, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1978-1980. Fieldwalking.
Found at approximately TG 1670 0615:
1 Palaeolithic handaxe or handaxe roughout. See drawing (S1).
Drawing suggests a large ovate or cleaver (E. Rose (NAU)).
Identified and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 22 January 1982.
Information from (S2). Also noted on (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- ROUGHOUT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1982. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe ?roughout.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Hethersett. |
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