Possible blade flake with roughly parallel sides and flake scars on the dorsal face. The flint has a slight light brownish grey patina. [MN 04/02/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Possible blade flake with roughly parallel sides and flake scars on the dorsal face. The flint has a slight light brownish grey patina. [MN 04/02/2010]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Suffolk near Lakenheath
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Fabian Lawrence
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic
Date collected: By 1897
Acquisition information: Donated: 1897
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 69 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.11.51
Research and responses: Flower refers to Lakenheath in his publication "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" which may be relevant [CB 8/12/2009]
Dr Joshua Pollard (University of Bristol) examined 1897.11.43 - .85 (flints from Lakenheath) on the 2/02/2010, and thought them probably to be Upper Palaeolithic rather than Neolithic. [AS 04/02/2010]
Dr Alison Roberts (Ashmolean Museum) examined 1897.11.43 - .85 on the 21/05/2010 and confirmed that they are final Upper Palaeolithic. [MN 24/05/2010]

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