Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8402 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint handaxes, Horsey beach |
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Summary
A Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found on this part of the beach in 1972. A second handaxe was found in roughly the same location in 2009.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 45 24 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG42SE |
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| Parish: | HORSEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
DO NOT ADD FINDS TO THIS RECORD. See [4].
1972. Stray Find.
Picked up on beach by [1] at approximately [2]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Dark brown flint with black patina. Not rolled, but damaged along edge. Possibly from off-shore peat? See sketch (S1). Information from (S2).
First reported in (S3) and described in (S4) as a rolled cordate handaxe, Wymer Type J e/v, 11cm long. Also noted on (S5) and in (S6), (S7) and (S8) although no additonal information is given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2014.
2009. Stray Find.
Found on beach at approximately [3]:
1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See drawing (S9).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description and map in file.
E. Darch, (NLA), 19 August 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 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)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Clough, T. 1972. Sketch of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Horsey. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1972. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1972. No 19. p 5. |
| <S4> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 36. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Horsey (No 1). |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 50. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22552. |
| <S8> | Illustration: Robins, P. 2009. Drawing of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Horsey. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S9> | 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 415. |
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