Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1564 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint object (Dersingham, poorly located) |
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Summary
At some time prior to 1907 a Palaeolithic flint object (possibly a handaxe) was found by a local schoolboy on a road somewhere in Dersingham. For a time this find was in the Dersingham School Museum, although its present whereabouts are unknown.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1906. Stray Find.
Dersingham is listed by W. G. Clarke in (S1) as a location that had produced Palaeolithic material prior to 1907. At this time the object(s) in question was held by the Dersingham School Museum.
Information from (S2).
Wymer records on (S3) that Clarke's notebook (NRO MS 128) lists this object as having been "…worked out of the road in 1906 by schoolboy, C. Davidson…". It was described as "...7" long [in] dark grey flint with yellow stains". It was clear from a simple sketch found later in the notebook that this object was a handaxe. This sketch is reproduced on (S3).
This find is also noted in (S4), (S5) and (S6), although little additional is given. The present location of this object is unknown.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 December 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
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 395. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Dersingham. |
| <S4> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 13. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 121. |
| <S6> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23089. |
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