Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8369 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic finds, Happisburgh/Lessingham beach |
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Summary
A Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on this section of the beach between Happisburgh and Eccles on Sea in 1975. A second Lower Paeolithic handaxe and a retouched flint flake of probable Palaeolithic date were found between 2019 and 2024, along with a flint scraper of possible Neolithic/Bronze Age date
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 40 29 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG42NW |
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| Parish: | HAPPISBURGH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| LESSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Unstratified artefacts recovered on the section of Happisburgh/Lessingham beach between Cart Gap and the end of Seaside Lane.
1975. Stray Find.
Found by [1] at high water line (but not marked as such on map) at approximately [2]:
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe, heavily rolled and polished. See sketch (S1) and drawing (S9). Information from (S2) and from PAS import.
This discovery was first reported in (S3).
The handaxe is also noted on (S4) and in (S5), (S6), (S7) and (S8), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 June 2014, A. Beckham (HES), 1 May 2016, and E. McDonald (HES), 18 August 2018.
July-September 2016. Stray Find.
Objects found on foreshore by [3].
Details to Follow.
E. McDonald, 10 December 2020.
January 2019. Stray find. [4].
Lower Palaeolithic small, rolled, and abraded handaxe of Wymer's type E.
Information from PAS import.
This object was previously recorded under NHER 63189.
A. Beckham (HES), 6 November 2019. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 10 January 2020.
Before November 2021. Stray Find. [5].
Found on foreshore:
Lower/Middle Palaeolithic retouched flint flake.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2023.
Before 18 January 2024. Stray Find. [5].
Neolithic/Bronze Age (or possibly earlier) flint scraper.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2024.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 800000 BC to 10001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 600000 BC to 150001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 600000 BC to 150001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 801 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T. 1975. Sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Lessingham. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1975. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1975. No 22. p 9. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Lessingham (Eccles). |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 35. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 50. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22557. |
| <S8> | Article in Serial: Robins, P., Wymer, J. J. and Parfitt, S. 2008. Handaxe Finds on the Norfolk Beaches. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt III pp 412-415. p 415. |
| <S9> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2016. Drawing of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1. |
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