Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21122 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe, Ringers Farm (Colby, poorly located) |
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Summary
At some time prior 1984 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on the land of Ringers Farm Colby. The exact location of this discovery is not known.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | COLBY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1984. Stray Find.
Presumed surface find by [1], somewhere on land of Ringers Farm (farmhouse located at TG 208 296):
1 Palaeolithic ovate flint handaxe. 12cm long, rolled condition, stained brown over dendritic patination. Some recent fractures. Reported by [2].
Identified and compiled by J. J. Wymer (NAU), 28 January 1985.
Information from (S1).
This discovery was first reported in (S2) and is also noted on (S3) and in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given. See reverse of (S3) for small sketch.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 June 2014.
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
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1986. Archaeological Discoveries for 1985. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 31 pp 53-89. p 70. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Colby. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 49. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22536. |
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