Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30195 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe, from Shropham Gravel Pit |
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Summary
In 1993 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on a conveyor belt at this gravel pit.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0021 9405 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09SW |
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| Parish: | SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1993. Stray Find.
Found on conveyor belt at Minns gravel pit (a pit renowned for its prolific Late Pleistocene mammalian remains):
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See sketch (S1).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
This discovery was first reported in (S2). The handaxe is briefly described on (S3) and also noted in (S4) and (S5), although no further details are given (the NHER having been the source of this information).
W. Milligan (NCM) 28 October 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 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
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1993. Sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Shropham. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 104-115. p 104. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Shropham. |
| <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 | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996.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 22850. |
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