Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2911 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe |
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Summary
In around 1970 a broken Palaeolithic handaxe was found during ploughing here. The handaxe had black staining.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 958 942 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99SE |
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| Parish: | STOW BEDON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Around 1970. Stray Find.
Found during ploughing:
1 Palaeolithic broken "Acheulian" flint handaxe. Stained black (inner flint light brown).
Seen by A. J. Lawson (NAU), 1975. Information from (S1).
This find is noted on (S2) and also listed in (S3), (S4) and (S5), although no further details are given (the NHER having been the source of this information).
A. J. Lawson (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 April 2013.
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> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Stow Bedon. |
| <S3> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 57. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 103. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22844. |
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