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1935.46.6

Antler crown from a red deer. The surface of the beam has multiple cut marks. The end of the beam is fractured. There are two tines, one which has been broken and repaired, the tip is missing. [CW [OPS Move] 10/5/2017]

1935.46.6

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Collection type
Object
Description
Antler crown from a red deer. The surface of the beam has multiple cut marks. The end of the beam is fractured. There are two tines, one which has been broken and repaired, the tip is missing. [CW [OPS Move] 10/5/2017]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England Norfolk Breckland Weeting-with-Broomhill Grimes Graves
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
By 1881?
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1935
Materials and processes
Material Deer Antler Animal
Dimensions
Length: max 270 mm, Width: max 195 mm, Depth: max 96 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1935.46.6
Research and responses

Grimes Graves [TL 8177 8976] is a later Neolithic flint mining complex in the parish of Weeting with Broomhill, Breckland district of Norfolk. The site covers approx. 6 hectares [14.83 acres] and at least 443 shafts are thought to survive. The first recorded investigations at the site occurred in the 1850s. Between 1868 and 1870 Cannon William Greenwell excavated the site. It is probable that George Rolleston's objects were obtained from Greenwell's excavation. Greenwell published the results of his excavations in 1870. The article can be accessed online through JSTOR, see http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014374. Full reference: Greenwell, W. 1870. On the Opening of Grime's Graves in Norfolk. The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London Vol. 2, No. 4: pp. 419-439. [MN 22/06/2009]

Grimes Graves is recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no. 382869. This record can be accessed online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=382869. [MN 22/06/2009]

The site is recorded on the Norfolk Historic Environment Record under NHER no. 5640. This record can be accessed online at http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk. [MN 22/06/2009]

There are numerous publications relating to excavation at Grimes' Graves, those listed below simply the most pertinent to items in the PRM. Canon Greenwell excavated 1868-70, and published his results in 1870 (see above). Major excavations were undertaken by the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia between 1919-1939 with AE Peake and later AL Armstrong directing and with many members taking part or visiting the site. All the following papers were published in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia: HGO Kendall, vol. 3:104- 108, 192- 199, 290- 305; AE Peake, vol. 3: 73-93; D Richardson, vol. 3: 243- 258; WG Clarke, vol. 3: 431- 433; AL Armstrong, vol. 3: 434- 443, 548- 558 vol. 4: 113-125, 182- 202 vol. 5: 91- 136 [CB 8/12/2009]

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