NHER 28108 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced ?Palaeolithic artefacts (Garboldisham, poorly located)
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GARBOLDISHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Full Description
1914. Stray Find.
A number of potentially Palaeolithic worked flints were recovered at an unknown location in Garboldisham by Rev. H. G. O. Kendall in. These discoveres were reported in (S1) and were made during an examination of various gravel pits in the Lopham area. The objects from Garboldisham are recorded as having come from a "cohesive, argillaceous, red sand…interdigitated, vertically, with chalk rubble containing flint". Rev. Kendall believed his Garboldisham flints objects to be distinct from naturally-fractured flints, suggesting that they may be "…intermediate in age between the pre-Crag industry and the Pleistocene Palaeoliths". As none of these objects were illustrated their status is uncertain and it is entirely possible that these were in fact natural 'eoliths' rather than genuine worked flints.
M. Leah (NLA), 18 January 1991, amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 March 2013.
Associated Sources (2)
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 SW 13.
- <S1> SNF1564 Article in Serial: Kendall, H. G. O. 1915. Middle Glacial and Pre-Crag Implements in South Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt I (for 1914-15) pp 31-35. pp 31-32.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- WORKED OBJECT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
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Record last edited
Jul 14 2016 12:22PM