Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10339 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxe, 42 Langley Green |
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Summary
In 1965 half of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in this garden.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1965. Stray Find.
Found in front garden of 42 Langley Green by [1]:
1 Palaeolithic broken "Acheulian" flint handaxe (upper half). See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3) and it is also listed in (S4), which incorrectly lists its provenance as Loddon parish.
The handaxe is also noted on (S5) and in (S6), (S7) and (S8), although no additional information is given.
T. Clough (NCM). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 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 30 SE 6. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1965. Drawing of a broken Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Langley.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1965. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1965. No 12. p 4. |
| <S4> | Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 235. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Langley with Hardley. |
| <S6> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 71. |
| <S7> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-5, No.1. |
| <S8> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22664. |
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