NHER 17337 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint implement

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Summary

Sometime prior to 1934 a prehistoric flint implement was recovered at high-tide level west of the gap at West Runton. There is some debate about whether the piece was natural flint or had been worked by humans.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish RUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre 1934. 'At high-tide level west of the gap at West Runton'.
Flint artefact?
Described in (S1) as 'a well designed steep edged scraper. Made from a wide, thick primary flake. It is 2.6 inches long, 3.6 inches wide and 1.6 inches in extreme height…' Quoted in article on Flint implements from the Stone Bed of the North Norfolk Coast.
As 'implements' from the stone bed are now thought to be eolithic (natural) all the tools described were included in site NHER 6335 (Eoliths and possible palaeo's from Runton Beach.)
However the article states that this particular tool did not come from the Stone Bed but from the beach near a stone bed exposure.
The implement passed to informant who presented it to NCM in June 1981.
F. Healy (NAU) states it is possibly an artefact.
E. Rose (NAU) 4 June 1981.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Sainty, J. E. 1934. Flint Implements from the 'Stone Bed' of the North Norfolk Coast. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VII Pt III pp 323-326. pp 324-325.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 14 2012 4:39PM

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