NHER 5799 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint Levallois flake, 'Rewlby' (Thetford, poorly located)

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Summary

A Middle Palaeolthic flint Levallois flake from Thetford is held by the Sedgewick Museum. The exact location and circumstances of its discovery are not known.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

According to (S1) the Sedgewick Museum (Cambridge) holds a Palaeolithic flint Levallois flake recorded as being from "Rewlby" in Thetford. The location of this site is unknown - there appears to be no records of such a place in either Thetford parish or indeed Norfolk as a whole. Information from (S2).
This object is also noted on (S3) and in (S4) and (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 July 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 240.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic.
  • <S3> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Thetford (Newlby/Rewlby).
  • <S4> Unpublished Contractor Report: 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 9 (Great Ouse) and 12 (Yorkshire and the Lincolnshire Wolds). Wessex Archaeology. LLO-2, No. 16.
  • <S5> Website: TERPS online database. Site 22687.
  • LEVALLOIS FLAKE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC? to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 4 2016 11:51AM

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