NHER 60089 (Find Spot record) - Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic retouched flint implement

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Summary

The British Museum holds an Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic retouched flint implement that was found near the "old church" (NHER 6797), most likely during the early 20th century.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG24SE
Civil Parish SIDESTRAND, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

?1920s. Stray Find.
The British Museum holds an Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint "retouched piece" that was found by S. H. Warren at Sidestrand (2011,8114.868). According to the museum's records this was found "near the old church" - almost certainly a reference to the former site of St Michael's Church (NHER 6797) which was demolished in 1880. The site of this church has now been lost to coastal erosion. It is not recorded when this object was found, although it is known that Warren visited the Sidestrand foreshore in order to investigate the site of a controversial Palaeolithic discovery during the late 1920s - see (S1) and NHER 6773.

It should be noted that the mapped extent of this record reflects only the approximate location of this findspot.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 June 2014.

  • <S1> Article in Serial: Sainty, J. E. and Warren, S. H. 1928. East Anglian Flints: an exchange of letters on the subject of Sidestrand hand-axe found by Mr Sainty. Antiquity. Vol 2 No 7 pp 344-345.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 4 2014 12:16PM

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