Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4142 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint cleaver |
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Summary
Around 1965 a Palaeolithic flint 'cleaver' was recovered from this area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 807 107 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SW |
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| Parish: | SWAFFHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1966. Stray Find.
Found at [1], near site of St Guthlac's Chapel (NHER 4145):
1 Palaeolithic flint cleaver. Donated to the King's Lynn Museum (A595; KILLM : 2001.663). Reported in (S1). Information from (S2). This object is described on (S3) and in (S4) as a rolled cleaver. It is also noted in (S5) and (S6), although no additional information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 June 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- CLEAVER (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 81 SW 31. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Serial: 1966. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1966. No 13. p 6. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Swaffham. |
| <S4> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 50. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. N&W-1, No. 10. |
| <S6> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 23059. |
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