Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22434 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe (Harling, poorly located) |
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Summary
At sometime prior to 1986 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found in the Harling area. The exact location and circumstances of this discovery are not known.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Pre 1986. Stray Find.
Found in the 'Harling area', but details forgotten by informant [1]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Nosed and thick butted, of brown flint and of good quality but with section broken off nose in recent (but not very recent) times. Length 152mm, width (butt) 85mm (nose) and 35mm (below break). See outline sketch in file (S1).
Seen and identified by E. Rose 16 April 1986. Information from (S2).
This object is also noted on (S3) and in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given.
P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 10001 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: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Harling ("area"). |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 99. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22724. |
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