Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7724 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxes |
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Summary
During the 1950 two broken Palaeolithic flint handaxes were recovered from a quarry screening machine at this location. They were subsequently lost.
Images - none
Location
Full description
August 1959. Stray Find.
Found by worker at screening machine in gravel pit west of Atlas Works:
2 Palaeolithic broken flint handaxes. Subsequently lost.
Information from (S1).
These discoveries were first reported in (S2) and are also listed in (S3). They are also noted on (S4) and in (S5), (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2014.
NGR corrected from original (TG 114 181).
M. Horlock (NLA), 24 March 2003.
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: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 11 NW 16. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 4. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 235. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Morton on the Hill. |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 55. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. W&Y-2, No.8. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22581. |
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