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1884.122.61

Stone flake

1884.122.61

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone flake
Long description
Flake of flint with light to mid blueish grey patina covering all surfaces, cortex present on dorsal butt and distal surfaces. [CC [Excav. PR] 05/09/2013]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England Norfolk Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Feltwell Shrub Hill Shrubhill Farm Gravel Pits
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected
By 1884
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 25 mm, Width: max 81 mm, Length: max 96 mm, Weight 136 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.122.61
Research and responses

The pre-PRM label attached to the object is known to be a John Wickham Flower label. Flower spent a considerable amount of time investigating geological deposits in the Valley of the Little Ouse and Shrub hill was one of the sites he focussed on. There is evidence that shows Flower, Evans and Pitt-Rivers exchanged material from their sites as reference material - this is why material from Flower has ended up in the Founding collection. [CG [Excav. PR] 04/12/2013]

I cannot find a Shrub Hill in Norfolk, I can find a Shrubhill Farm in Feltwell in Norfolk that might be the place as sometimes names of places given in our docouments are actually just farms, but I cannot find anything to confirm it - the farm name came from http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=400.010.019 which suggests it is a known archaeological site. Feltwell is near the Little Ouse, Shrubhill farm is to the South west of the town [AP 16/08/2006]

Associated publications
Flower, J.W. 1867. 'On some flint implements lately found in the Valley of the Little Ouse River at Thetford, Norfolk' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 23:45–53 http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/23/1-2/45.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014] Flower, J. W. 1869a. On the distribution of flint implements in the drift with reference to some recent discoveries in Norfolk and Suffolk. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 25: 272-273. http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/25/1-2/272.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014] Flower, J.W. 1869b. 'On some recent discoveries of flint implements of the Drift of Norfolk and Suffolk, with observations on the theories accounting for their distribution' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 25:449-460. http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/25/1-2/449.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014]

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