Accession No

1930.30


Description

A well formed laurel leaf shaped Solutrean tool or handaxe. Grey in colour with a small patch of cortex on one side.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Norfolk; Heacham


Period

Palaeolithic Solutrean


Source


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1930.30


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
From the Beach at Heacham.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue Card: 'Solutrean Laurel-leaf from the beach at Heacham. Probably washed out from the Brown Boulder clay which is a deposit well seen just to the Heacham side of Hunstanton [per B. Lowerison]'
Event Date 1930
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Solutream laurel-leaf'.
Event Date 1930
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
A well formed laurel leaf shaped Solutrean tool or handaxe. Grey in colour with a small patch of cortex on one side.
Event Date 1/11/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


FM:300017

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