Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6255 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Possible Palaeolithic flint scraper |
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Summary
During the 1920s an object described as a Palaeolithic "square-ended scraper" was recovered from a gravel deposit exposed on the coast, to the west of the Lifeboat House (NHER 60107). The nature of this object is uncertain, with at least one author regarding it as a dubious artefact. The Norwich Castle Museum holds a flint (also of uncertain nature) that was probably recovered at this site around the same time.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1402 4351 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SW |
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| Parish: | UPPER SHERINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1929. Field Observation.
In 1929 J. Reid Moir reported a number of what he believed to be Palaeolithic implements that had been recovered from the "cannon-shot gravels" exposed along the North Norfolk coast (S1). These objects were found by J. Reid Moir, J. E. Sainty and G. Maynard during fieldwork funded by the Percy Sladen Trust. The pieces described and illustrated in (S1) include a "square-ended scraper from Glacial gravel" that had been found "west of the Lifeboat House" in Sheringham. Information from (S2).
This scraper appears to be the retouched flake/flake implement from Sheringham that is listed by Roe (S2) (the reference "PPSEA I p. 8" given by Roe is presumably an error and should read PPSEA VI p. 8). This scraper is also noted by Wymer in (S3), although he regarded this and most of the other objects figured in (S1) as "dubious artefacts". It is also noted in (S4) and (S5), although no additional information is given.
The Norwich Castle Museum holds a "chipped flint" that is recorded as being found on the beach at Weybourne "near Lifeboat House" (NWHCM : 1963.29). This was transferred from the Ipswich Museum in 1963. This find was probably originally donated by J. Reid Moir and its recorded provenance suggests that it was probably actually from somewhere in the vicinity of this site. As with many of the objects Moir donated to the Ipswich Museum this is potentially a naturally fractured flint rather than a true artefact.
Information from (S6).
The mapped extent of this record indicates only the approximate area is which this object was probably found. The site of the Lifeboat House itself is now recorded separately, as NHER 60107.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
Associated Finds
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- WORKED OBJECT? (Lower Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Moir, J. Reid. 1929. Palaeolithic Implements from the Cannon-Shot Gravel of Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VI Pt I (for 1928) pp 1-11. pp 7-8; Fig 8. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 23. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. CR-2, No.10. |
| <S5> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22490. |
| <S6> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous Prehistoric. |
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