Poorly Located Find Spot record RGD 019 - Ringsfield General, (Palaeolithic)

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Summary

One Palaeolithic unretouched flake found at Ringsfield is listed by Roe. Also a handaxe?Formerly recorded as RDG MISC

Location

Grid reference	TM 40 88 (point)
Map sheet	TM48NW
Civil Parish	RINGSFIELD, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK

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SITE? (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 9400 BC?)

Full Description

Pre 1968: One Palaeolithic unretouched flake found at Ringsfield is listed by Roe (S1). One hand-axe also in Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Roe (S2). Findspots unknown.

Wymer suggests the flake maybe Neolithic, (S3).

Formerly recorded as RDG MISC

Sources/Archives (3)

<S1> SSF50032 Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM48NW13, 1978.
<S2> SSF17674 Bibliographic reference: Roe, Derek.. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower & Middle Palaeolithic sites. 277.
<S3> SSF50084 Bibliographic reference: Wymer, J.J.. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. 179.

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Record last edited

Jul 16 2020 4:42PM