NHER 7894 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic worked flints

Early 20th century. Stray Find.
Found in area centred TG 1748 1380:
Neolithic flint implements, chiefly scrapers. Information from (S1) and (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 May 2014.

Early 20th century. Stray Find.
The Norwich Castle Museum holds a collection of "undated prehistoric worked flint implements" that were recovered in Drayton by F. H. English at some time prior to 1933 (NWHCM : 1933.38). The grid reference listed in the museum's records (TG 1753 1385) suggests that these finds were found relatively close to those described above (the mapped extent of this record has been expanded to include this second findspot). It may be that English's finds are actually those originally recorded by (S1) and (S2), particularly as English's finds are not mentioned elsewhere in any of the early sources.

According to R. Jacobi's archive (S3) this collection contains two Mesolithic flint tranchet tools (an axehead and an adze). It does however seem likely that this is an error as there is no evidence that Mesolithic or Neolithic core tools are part of this collection. It is more likely that the objects examined by Jacobi were actually part of a second collection of flints in the NCM that were found by English in Drayton (NWHCM : 1930.183; from NHER 7890/NHER 7893), which is recorded in (S4) as containing a range of core tools (including one implement described as a "tranchet tool"). See NHER 7893 for further details.

This site is one of the possible sources of the flint "pygmies" that are listed in (S5) as having been found in Drayton by English in 1916 (although NHER 7893 is the more likely provenance). See NHER 7844 for further information on these and other poorly provenanced finds from Drayton.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 May 2014.