Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20895 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade |
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Summary
A Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade was found here in 1984. This is one of many such pieces to have been recovered from the Titchwell foreshore; see NHER 15352 for further details.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7603 4528 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF74NE |
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| Parish: | TITCHWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
8 February 1984. Stray Find:
Picked up from beach below high water mark:
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic flint long blade. Length 20.5cm; width varying, maximum 5.5cm. Roughly triangular in section. Grey flint masked by iron staining and final, almost overall black 'peat' patina. Edge damage but no secondary working. See drawing (S1).
Identified and drawn by J.J. Wymer (NAU). Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3) and is also listed in (S4). The illustration of this blade is reproduced in (S5), which details the large assemblage of Late Upper Palaeolithic flints that had been recoverd from the beach at Titchwell.
E.M. James (KLM), 29 October 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 December 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1984. Drawing of a Late Upper Palaeolithic flint long blade from Titchwell. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: 1985. Archaeological Discoveries for 1984. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 30 pp 23-36. p 30. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Robins, P. and Wymer, J. 2006. Late Upper Palaeolithic (Long Blade) Industries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 86-95. p 93. |
| <S5> | Article in Serial: Wymer, J. J. and Robins, P. A. 1994. A Long Blade Industry beneath Boreal peat at Titchwell, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 13-37. Fig 11; No 23. |
Related records
| 22810 | Related to: Flandrian deposits and associated Late Upper Palaeolithic flint industry (Monument) |
| 15352 | Related to: Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade industry and Mesolithic, Neolithic and later finds (Find Spot) |
| 1353 | Related to: Undatable prehistoric, Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic worked flints (Find Spot) |
| 1304 | Related to: Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints (Find Spot) |
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