NHER 3331 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flake from Sugar Fen
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF62SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GRIMSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1960-1965. Stray Find.
Found by [1] on Sugar Fen:
1 Palaeolithic flint flake. Now held by King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 2001.530). Listed in (S1).
Information from (S2).
This object is described on (S3) and in (S4) as a rolled and stained large finishing flake. Wymer notes that the fen peat is broken by gravelly patches and that this flake may well have come from one of these.
It should be noted that Sugar Fen is actually in Grimston parish, not Leziate as recorded by (S1) and (S4). Although (S1) only gives a general grid reference, a precise location is given by (S4) - this is also listed in (S3) and was taken from the KLM's records.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 December 2013.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF7911 Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 234.
- <S2> SNF87255 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
- <S3> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Grimston (Sugar Fen).
- <S4> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 15.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
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Record last edited
Feb 12 2016 11:53AM