NHER 2914 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint flake (Brisley, poorly located)

1905. Stray Find.
The British Museum Sturge Collection holds a single unretouched Palaeolithic flake that is recorded as having been found in the parish of Brisley (2011,8109.729). Information from (S1) and (S2).
This object is described on (S3) as a rolled primary flake, which also notes that that a W. G. Clarke newspaper cutting in the NRO (MS 128) makes reference to a "…flake in bed of a dry ditch…June 1905".
The flake is also listed in (S4), (S5), (S6) and (S7).

Brisley was listed by W. G. Clarke (S8) as a location that had produced Palaeolithic material prior to 1907, with the finder listed as Clarke himself. Wymer (S5) suggests that this is probably a reference to the object now in the British Museum, although this is not certain. It should be noted that according to (S9) Clarke's identification was incorrect and the material listed was actually Neolithic (which saw it originally recorded seperately, as NHER 2915). Also of note is the fact that according to (S3) one of W. G. Clarke's manuscripts held by the Norwich Castle Museum (S10) makes reference to a handaxe found in Briston "on the surface in 1885" (NHER 60090). Briston is not listed as a source of Palaeolithic material in (S8), suggesting that one of these sources has recorded the wrong parish.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 August 2013.