Record Details

NHER Number:40158
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe

Summary

In 2002 a broken Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe was recovered at this location.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 185 432
Map Sheet:TG14SE
Parish:RUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

June 2002. Stray Find.
1 Lower Palaeolithic thin, point flint handaxe (broken tip). Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2003.72).
Information from NCM, see catalogue entry in file.
This handaxe is noted in (S1).
J. Allen (NLA), 12 February 2004. Amended by P.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>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 414.

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