NHER 6443 (Find Spot record) - Possible worked flints and potentially Neolithic flint implement, Lighthouse Hill

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Summary

During the late 19th century and early 20th century a number of potentially prehistoric worked flints were recovered from the area known as Lighthouse Hill. These include a "Neolithic implement" and several flints that were initially reported as Palaeolithic, but are now thought unlikely to be genuine artefacts.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG24SW
Civil Parish CROMER, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre May 1877. Stray Find.
On 1 May 1877 R. Fitch exhibited a "Neolithic flint implement, found on the Lighthouse-hill at Cromer" at a meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society (S1). Information from (S2).
This object does not appear to be part of the Norwich Castle Museum's Fitch Collection.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 July 2014.

Pre 1929. Stray Find.
In 1929 J. Reid Moir reported a number of what he believed to be Palaeolithic implements that had been recovered from the "cannon-shot gravels" exposed along the North Norfolk coast (S3). These objects were found by Reid Moir, J. E. Sainty and G. Maynard as part of research funded by the Percy Sladen Trust and including three found on Lighthouse Hill, "…where the deposit is to be seen at the very top of the cliff, and resting about 200 feet above the beach level". These three implements, which are illustrated in (S3), are described as a chopper or handaxe, a 'point' and a scraper. It should be noted that Wymer (S4) raised doubts about the majority of the objects published in (S3), although the finds from Lighthouse Hill are not the ones he regarded as the most dubious.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 July 2014.

It should be noted that the mapped extent of this record reflects the reported location of the flints described in (S3). The exact location of the 1877 discovery is not known (although it was presumably within or close to this area.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 July 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: 1879. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee and the General Meetings. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VIII pp 326-341. p 336.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Cromer.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Moir, J. Reid. 1929. Palaeolithic Implements from the Cannon-Shot Gravel of Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VI Pt I (for 1928) pp 1-11. pp 5-7; Figs 3-5.
  • <S4> Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 23.
  • CHOPPER (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • POINT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

May 30 2019 10:20AM

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