1884.122.91

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone axe

Long description

Flint axe with orange-brown patina covering the majority of surfaces. Cortex present. Pint of implement broken in antiquity. [CG [Excav. PR] 04/09/2013]

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

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector John Wickham Flower

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Palaeolithic

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 39 mm, Width: max 81 mm, Length: max 119 mm, Weight 370 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.122.91 Other numbers: 5

Research and responses

The 'Shrub Hill Norfolk' written on the object is thought to be in the hand of John Wickham Flower. 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 [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014] Flower, J.W. 1869. '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. [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014]

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