Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21261 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxe, Nar Valley (Narford, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found somewhere in the Nar Valley near Narford some time before 1981.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Pre 1981. Stray Find.
1 Palaeolithic handaxe. Writing on artefact reads 'Nar Valley, Narford, Norfolk'.
Nothing known of the precise locality or circumstances of discovery.
Cordate handaxe 13.5cm long, rolled and stained.
J.J. Wymer (NAU) 1 March 1985.
Information from (S1).
This object is described on (S2) and in (S3). It is also listed in (S4) and (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 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
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Narford. |
| <S3> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 45. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. N&W-2, No. 2. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23063. |
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