Record Details
NHER Number: | 9251 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic antler axe and animal remains, River Tiffey dredgings |
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Summary
A Mesolithic axe made from the antler of a red deer and other animal remains (including sheep/goat, cattle and red deep bones) were dredged from the river in 1974.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 1040 0607 |
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Map Sheet: | TG10NW |
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Parish: | KIMBERLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1974. Stray Find.
From dredgings of River Tiffey.
?Mesolithic red deer antler 'axe'. Identified by R. Jacobi (British Museum) who took a peat sample for pollen analysis. Information from (S1). Also originally suggested as a potentially Bronze Age object. See (S2).
Also other faunal remains including red deer antlers (shed and sawn); Bos primigenius vertebra and ribs; Bos Primigenius or Longifrons scapula, tibia; sheep/goat tibia/fibula, skull and rib and sheep/goat or deer metapoidal. Identified by P. Lawrance. Information from (S3).
These discoveries were reported in (S4). The finds themselves are now held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.330).
E. Rose (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 February 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
- WORKED OBJECT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Kimberley. |
<S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
<S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Kimberly. |
<S3> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S4> | Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 5. |
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