Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25257 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
In 1989 a Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found at this site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0379 9554 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NW |
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| Parish: | ATTLEBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1989. Stray Find.
Found north-east of Crowshall Bridge, on surface at headwaters of tributary of Little Ouse:
1 Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Flat-butted cordate in very rolled condition, slightly stained and patinated. A good example of a type of handaxe that is typical, though not necessarily restricted to, a period during the first half of the last glaciation (c. 80,000 to 50,000 years ago). See drawing (S1) and sketch (S2).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU), 6 March 1989. See full description in file.
This discovery was reported in (S3) and is also noted on (S4) and in (S5) and (S6), although no additional details are given (the NHER having been the source of this information).
Subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2000.189.2).
W. Milligan (NCM) 20 March 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 April 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. 1989. Drawing of a Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Attleborough. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Wymer, J. 1989. Sketch of a Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Attleborough. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 96; Fig 1. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Attleborough. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. p 103. |
| <S6> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22860. |
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