Pick made from deer antler; the two tines are broken and the main tip has been removed, part of the crown is present. The pick appears to have been repaired. [CG [Excav. PR] 11/11/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pick made from deer antler; the two tines are broken and the main tip has been removed, part of the crown is present. The pick appears to have been repaired. [CG [Excav. PR] 11/11/2013]
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
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector William Greenwell; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected: By 1884
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Animal Antler
Dimensions: Depth: max 140 mm, Width: max 290 mm, Length: max 455 mm, Weight 793 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.118.269 Other numbers: 7? "Gallery III"
Research and responses: This object may match with Red Book 7. Equally, so may 1884.118.270 or 1884.118.271. [Dan Hicks 14/11/2013]
Grimes Graves: Neolithic flint mines near Brandon on the Norfolk Suffolk border. ... there are the remains of 346 mine shafts ... [W Bray and D Trump, Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, 1982 :101] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Note that Pitt Rivers was at Grimes Graves as a visitor in 1868, Canon Greenwell found antler picks on that site in the same year [AP 02/09/2008]
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, a friend of Pitt Rivers, excavated the site. It is probable that the Pitt Rivers founding collection 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 in The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 4 : 419-439. 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]
Associated publications: Referred to on page 249 of 'Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe', by Joshua Pollard and Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 240-61. Pollard and Hicks write: ‘Similarly, in the PRM founding collection are 4 antler picks (1884.118.268– 271) from the Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves, Norfolk, excavated by Canon William Greenwell, from whom Pitt-Rivers received his ‘very first lessons as an excavator’ (Pitt-Rivers 1887: xix [Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1887. Excavations at Cranborne Chase. Volume 1. Rushmore:Privately printed.]).'. [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

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