NHER 8368 (Find Spot record) - Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint knife

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Summary

An Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint knife was found during ditch cleaning works in 1968.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG42NW
Civil Parish INGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1968. Stray Find.
Found while cleaning ditch:
1 Mesolithic blunted-back flint knife. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1968.307).
Information from (S1).
This discovery was reported in (S2) and is probably the 'miscellaneous implement' from Ingham listed in (S3). This piece is described in (S4) as a 98mm long 'giant knife' and recorded as [?Upper] Palaeolithic rather than Mesolithic.

It should be noted that there is some uncertainty regarding the exact provenance of this find. The approximate grid reference listed on (S1) places it in Sea Palling (TG 4152 2681) and it was previously recorded and mapped as such. This find is however listed in (S2) as being from Ingham and the grid reference given (which is in Ingham) is the same as that which appears in museum's records and (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 June 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic.
  • <S2> Serial: 1968. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1968. No 15. p 7.
  • <S3> Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 207.
  • <S4> Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 600.
  • KNIFE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC? to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 9 2014 12:58PM

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