Record Details

NHER Number:18828
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Palaeolithic flint handaxe

Summary

According to an old NCM record map a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found here at some before 1983. No further details are known.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2394 1776
Map Sheet:TG21NW
Parish:FRETTENHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 1983. Stray Find.
"Mr Winfield's handaxe" written here on NCM record map. Details not known.
E. Rose (NAU), 11 February 1983. Information from (S1).
This appears to be the only record of a Palaeolithic discovery in Frettenham parish.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 10001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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