Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10898 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint find |
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Summary
A Neolithic chipped flint sickle was found before 1935.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 099 801 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08SE |
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| Parish: | ROYDON (NEAR DISS), SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Found before 1935. Roydon Pit. Chipped knife with curved blade, a sickle, 15cm by 3cm by 9mm (6 inches by 11/4 inches by 3/8 of an inch). See (S1) and (S2).
Sketch (S3) in file.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Also drawing made in 1995
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SICKLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Serial: 1898. Catalogue of Canon Mannings Antiquities.. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 SE 20; TM 08 SE 21. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Roydon (Near Diss). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Article in Serial: 1898. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee and at General Meetings. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XIII pp 358-360. p 359. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clark, G. 1932. The Curved Flint Sickle Blades of Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VII Pt I pp 67-81. p 73. |
| <S2> | Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 65. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
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