Record Details

NHER Number:11164
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint implement, Roughton Heath (Roughton, marginal)

Summary

A Palaeolithic flint "implement" was found on Roughton Heath in 1930.

Images - none

Location

Parish:ROUGHTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1930. Stray Find.
Found by A. C. Savin on "Roughton Heath":
1 "Palaeolithic implement". In the possession of Mr Savin in 1934 but possibly subsequently donated to the Spalding Museum? Information from (S1).
This object is listed in (S2) and also noted on (S3) and in (S4), (S5) and (S6). In all cases this is simply a reference to the above information from the NCM's early records.

The area known as Roughton Heath covers much of the northernmost part of the parish and as a result the provenance of this object is uncertain.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 June 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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 - Palaeolithic. Roughton.
<S2>Monograph: Roe, D. A. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. CBA Research Report. No 8. p 237.
<S3>Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Roughton.
<S4>Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 32.
<S5>Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. CR-2, No.17.
<S6>Website: TERPS online database. Site 22515.

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