Record Details

NHER Number:13330
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic flint core, Telegraph Hill

Summary

The Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) hold a Mesolithic flint blade core that was found by J. E. Sainty on Telegraph Hill. The date and circumstance of this discovery are not known.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 1021 4238
Map Sheet:TG14SW
Parish:KELLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Pre 1977. Stray Find.
The Pitt Rivers Museum holds a Mesolithic flint core from Telegraph Hill, Kelling. This object is listed in (S1) and had been identified by R. Jacobi. It is listed in his records (S2) as a blade core that had been donated to D. W. Baden-Powell by J. E. Sainty. Possibly unregistered.

The mapped extent of this record indicates only the approximate area in which this object was probably found; its exact provenance is not recorded.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 31 July 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Protected Status

  • SHINE
  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 209.
<S2>Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10281.

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