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1941.10.57

Large fragment of deer antler, possibly used as a pick. Part of crown still attached. [RH [OPS Move] 19/4/2017]

1941.10.57

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Collection type
Object
Description
Large fragment of deer antler, possibly used as a pick. Part of crown still attached. [RH [OPS Move] 19/4/2017]
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 Albert Leslie Armstrong
PRM source William Henry Young
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
July 1929
Acquisition information
Donated: 1941
Materials and processes
Material Animal Antler
Dimensions
Length: max 415 mm, Depth: max 70 mm, Width: max 92 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1941.10.57
Research and responses

Please note that the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities, lists a W.H. Young as donating an object in 1966. They also note that he is the Restorer at the Ashmolean Museum 1900 - 1937. [L.Ph 26/3/2004]

Note that according to an article in British Archaeology Armstrong dug at Pit 15 between 1937-9, he must also have dug that earlier [AP 25/09/2006]

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. Starting in 1914 the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia undertook 25 years of continuous excavation at the site under a series of distinguished directors [details can be found on the NMR record listed below]. A L Armstrong was director of fieldwork between 1920 and 1939. [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]

Search terms: Tool, Animalia, Pick, Animal Part

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