NHER 7919 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic or Neolithic flint implements (Diss, poorly located)

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Summary

Mesolithic or Neolithic flint implements, including a pick and axes, found before 1931.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish DISS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre 1931. Stray Find.
According to (S1) the British Museum Sturge Collection includes 18 unprovenanced Neolithic flint implements from Diss, including 2 'celts' and 1 'pick'. Information from (S2).

A noted added to (S2) by E. Rose (NAU) suggests that some of these flints could be Mesolithic, although the reason for this assertion is not given.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 January 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 17 NW 29.
  • <S1> Publication: Smith, R. A. 1931. The Sturge Collection: an illustrated selection of flints from Britain bequeathed in 1919 by William Allen Sturge. pp 126-127.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Diss.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PICK (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Oct 5 2018 12:20PM

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