NHER 60090 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint implement (Briston, poorly located; Brisley, poorly located)

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Summary

It has been recorded that W. G. Clarke's surviving manuscript notes include a reference to a Palaeolithic implement found at Briston. However no other sources make reference to such an object, including those produced by Clarke himself. A list of findspots published in 1907 does however list the Breckland parish of Brisley as having produced Palaeolithic material and it is possible that both sources are refering to the same find - with an incorrect provenance being given by this list, Clarke's notes or the transcription of the latter.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	BRISTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	BRISLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1885. Stray Find.
Found "on the surface in 1885":
1 Palaeolithic handaxe.
This discovery is recorded in (S1) and (S2), this source of this information being W. G. Clarke's documents at the Norfolk Record Office (S3). This note was added to the entry for a handaxe found near Moor Hall in Briston (NHER 19551), possibly suggesting that Clarke's handaxe had a similar provenance. It should however be noted that this is possibly a misreading of (S4), which simply states that Clarke noted a "Palaeolithic implement". The only date noted is that on which this information was added - "15.2.85".

Briston is not listed in (S5) as a location that had produced Palaeolithic material prior to 1907, which is puzzling, given that it was W. G. Clarke that compiled this list. Brisley (Breckland), is however listed as a place that had produced Palaeolithic material, found by Clarke himself. This is probably a reference to a Palaeolithic flake that is now in the British Museum's Sturge Collection (NHER 2914). It is therefore possible that Clarke's documents both refer to the same object, with either his records or Wymer's transcription of them giving an incorrect parish.

Previously recorded under NHER 19551.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

Associated Sources (6)

<S1> SNF3009 Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 49.
<S2> SNF88238 Website: TERPS online database. Site 22533.
<S3> SNF5212 Publication: Clarke, W.G.. 1922. Mss note.
<S4> SNF92480 Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Briston.
<S5> SNF1308 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Vol VIII Pt III (for 1906-1907) pp 393-409. p 395.
<S6> SNF2850 Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 22.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Object Types (1)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Mar 6 2016 8:22PM