Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21753 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle Palaeolithicflint handaxe, west of Woodhouse Farm |
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Summary
In 1985 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was ploughed up in the paddock here. It is an elegantly flaked example of a Middle Palaeolithic flat-butted cordate bout coupé handaxe.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2213 9643 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM29NW |
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| Parish: | SAXLINGHAM NETHERGATE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1985. Stray Find.
Ploughed up in paddock:
1 Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe of flat-butted cordate (bout coupé) form. Made of dark grey-black flint, unpatinated on one face, stained brown and part patinated on the other. Elegantly flaked. Unrolled but slightly weathered and edges damaged in antiquity, presumably by soil movement in permafrost. See drawing (S1).
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU). Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3). It is also described on (S4) and is noted in (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given. A photograph of the handaxe also appears in (S7). Handaxe of this form are generally associated with Late Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal activity and it is listed as such in (S8) and (S9).
J. J. Wymer (NAU) 1 October 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 January 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Drawing of a Middle Palaeolithic flint 'bout coupe' handaxe from Saxlingham Nethergate. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: 1986. Archaeological Discoveries for 1985. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 31 pp 53-89. p 83. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Saxlingham Nethergate (2). |
| <S5> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 67. |
| <S6> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22659. |
| <S7> | Publication: Muir, M. 2000. A Good Place to Call Home: Discovering the History of Saxlingham Thorpe and Saxlingham Nethergate. p 6. |
| <S8> | Monograph: Tyldesley, J. A. 1987. The bout coupé Handaxe: a typological problem. British Archaeological Report. No 170. p 38. |
| <S9> | Publication: Pettitt, P. and White, M. 2012. The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. p 328. |
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