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Record Details

NHER Number:	8051
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe (Wroxham, poorly located)

Summary

It is recorded that in 1973 a large Palaeolithic flint pointed handaxe was recovered in the parish of Wroxham, although the exact findspot is not known.

Images - none

Location

Parish:	WROXHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1973. Stray Find.
From Wroxham, findspot and circumstances of discovery unknown:
1 Palaeolithic large flint "Acheulian" pointed handaxe. See drawing (S1). Information from (S2).
This find was first reported in (S3) and is briefly described on (S4) and in (S5). It is also noted in (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2014.

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

---	Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 NE 18.
---	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Illustration: Clough, T. 1973. Drawing of a large flint Palaeolithic pointed handaxe from Wroxham. Card. 1:1.
<S2>	Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
<S3>	Serial: 1973. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1973. No 20. p 15.
<S4>	Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Wroxham.
<S5>	Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 59.
<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	Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997.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.4.
<S7>	Website: TERPS online database. Site 22527.