NHER 10898 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint find

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Summary

A Neolithic chipped flint sickle was found before 1935.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TM08SE
Civil Parish	ROYDON (NEAR DISS), SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Found before 1935. Roydon Pit. Chipped knife with curved blade, a sickle, 15cm by 3cm by 9mm (6 inches by 11/4 inches by 3/8 of an inch). See (S1) and (S2).
Sketch (S3) in file.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Also drawing made in 1995

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF94188 Article in Serial: 1898. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee and at General Meetings. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XIII pp 358-360. p 359.
--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Roydon (Near Diss).
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 SE 20; TM 08 SE 21.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
--- SNF57093 Serial: 1898. Catalogue of Canon Mannings Antiquities..
<S1> SNF7694 Article in Serial: Clark, G. 1932. The Curved Flint Sickle Blades of Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VII Pt I pp 67-81. p 73.
<S2> SNF1806 Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 65.
<S3> SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Object Types (2)

KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SICKLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Roydon (near Diss) (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jul 14 2016 11:33AM