Record Details
NHER Number: | 24752 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic pick |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint pick found in 1988.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 0021 3665 |
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Map Sheet: | TG03NW |
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Parish: | GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1988. Stray Find.
1 Mesolithic flint pick. Very long (32cm). Recent damage at cutting end shows good quality, dark flint.
Patinated blue/white and in good, fresh condition apart from the recent break. No cortex on either face. See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2) in file.
Identified and compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 25 August 1988.
This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- PICK (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
--- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
<S1> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1988. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Paper. 1:1. |
<S2> | Photograph: 1988. Photograph of a Mesolithic flint pick from Gunthorpe. Black and white. Print. |
<S3> | Article in Serial: 1989. Archaeological Discoveries for 1988. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 34 pp 32-61. p 38. |
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