Monument record MNL 210 - Snare Drove, Kenny Hill. (Un)

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Summary

Stone pestle with a spiral groove around its centre, 32.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 6498 8069 (100m by 100m)
Map sheet TL68SW
Civil Parish MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill, Forest Heath, Suffolk

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Stone pestle with a spiral groove around its centre, 32.4cm long. Information from P Cole per Moyses Hall Museum (S1). Findspot given by C Pendleton (S2). Identified as Med pestle by BM (S1) but possibly Prehistoric, note similar pestles from Nottinghamshire and Shropshire (S3)(R1), and one identified petrologically from West Row Fen (NWHCM, number S144). Found by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) circa 1977, described in general terms as `pumice like stone' (S2).
Also BA.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <S1> (No record type): BSEMH, card L1985-20(a), 1985.
  • <R1> (No record type): Chitty L F, Trans Shropshire Arch Soc, 57, 1964, (3), 180-184.
  • <M1> (No record type): BSEMH : card L1985-20(a), drawing.
  • <S2> (No record type): Pendleton C, record of finds from Mildenhall area, 198407 entry.
  • <S3> (No record type): Alvey R C, Three Pestles from Attenborough, Notts, Trans Thoroton Soc, circa 1980.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Feb 13 2018 2:37PM

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