Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8731 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint scraper, Meadow Farm (Saham Toney, poorly located) |
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Summary
A small Palaeolithic flint scraper was found on farmland here some time prior to 1935. The exact location and circumstances of its discovery remain unknown, although it appears to have come from the area surrounding Meadow Farm. It is possible that a second, similar object was also found on this land a number of years later.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1935. Stray Find.
Found by N. Newton on land of Meadow Farm (TF 9075 0241), Saham Toney:
1 Palaeolithic small flint scraper (flake tool). Shown to R. R. Clarke (NCM) by [1] on 30 March 1935. Possibly the same item as one shown to R. R. Clarke in 1947 by [1].
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 April 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
Associated Finds
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (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. |
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