Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5488 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic handaxes, pit near King's Lynn (King's Lynn, poorly located) |
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Summary
Two Palaeolithic flint handaxes were found in a pit near King's Lynn in 1870.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1870. Stray Find.
Found by J. Wyatt "…in a gravel pit near Lynn":
2 Palaeolithic flint handaxes.
This discovery is noted in (S1), in which the handaxes are described as "...an oval flint implement, well formed and deeply stained, and another of rude workmanship". Information from (S2).
These finds are listed in (S3) and also noted in on (S4) and in (S5), (S6) and (S7), although no additional information is given.
The exact provenance of these items is unclear, although Wymer (S5) suggests that they may well have come from South Wootton, an area which is known to have produced a range of other Palaeolithic objects.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 November 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> | Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition. p 572. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 234. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Kings Lynn. |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 15. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996.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. 17. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23076. |
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