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Record ID: SF8376
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large flint hand-axe, squat ovate form. Rolled and abraded condition. Stained deep mid and dark brown, with a recent chip from one edge revealing pale grey flint beneath. Lower (early) Palaeolithic, c. 500,000 BC to 40,000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'HIGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8258
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary flint flake, stained or patinated a deep medium/dark brown and cream over black flint. The patination suggests that it is very early, possibly Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF4142
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ovate handaxe, broken at one end in antiquity. Glossy red/brown stained flint with a large number of coarse-grained inclusions. An old but thinly patinated chip indicates that the flint is probably pale grey in colour. One face is flaked all over; the opposed face is more than 50% cortex, which is thick but weathered, of a buff colour with black speckled staining. Dimensions: 124 mm surviving length, 85 mm wide and 30 mm thick. Condition: lightly rolled. Wymer does not list any Palaeolithic material from the immediate area, but gives examples of handaxes from Belton Common and Hopton-…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SOMERLEYTON ASHBY AND HERRINGFLEET', grid reference and parish protected.
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