Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9882 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe |
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Summary
In 1963 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was recovered in this field.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2927 0317 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20SE |
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| Parish: | YELVERTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1963. Stray Find.
Found in field by [1]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Made on flake with part of cortex remaining. Ocherous staining. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This handaxe is listed in (S3) and also noted on (S4) and in (S5), (S6) and (S7). In all cases no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 March 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: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Milligan, W. 1963. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe (made on flake) from Yelverton. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. Yelverton. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 242. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Yelverton. |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 69. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-4, No.23. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22651. |
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