Poorly Located Find Spot record MNL 872 - Findspot of a Neolithic white flint chisel

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Summary

Mildenhall (area), Fenton Collection: chisel of white flint, 3. Formerly recorded as MNL MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 67 78 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL67NE
Civil Parish MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Mildenhall (area), Fenton Collection: chisel of white flint, 3.5 inches long (S1).
Also other unspecified artefacts in Fenton Collection (S2). Small polished stone axe, "petrological report from Geol Survey, 1956 says: `The rock is a greywacke with angular and rounded grains of quartz, iron-ore, chlorite and feldspar set in a chloritic and microgranular quartz-feldspathic matrix. Epidote is fairly common.' S.9, ENQ 1516" (S3)(S4).

Formerly recorded as MNL MISC

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 1899-30.204, undated.
  • <S2> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 1899-30.
  • <S3> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 1935-214.
  • <S4> (No record type): Clough T H McK and Cummins W A (eds), Stone Axe Studies, 2, CBA RR, 67, 1988, 180 no. 9.

Finds (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:48AM

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