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1913.25.54

Unfinished flaked flint implement. [El.B 24/09/2007]

1913.25.54

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Collection type
Object
Description
Unfinished flaked flint implement. [El.B 24/09/2007]
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 Henry Balfour
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1913
Acquisition information
Donated: 1913
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length: max 90 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1913.25.54
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, a friend of Pitt Rivers, excavated the site. Between 1870 and the accession of this object in 1913 there were no recorded investigations at the site [see NMR entry below for details], Balfour may have collected this object during field walking? . [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]

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