Poorly Located Find Spot record NYW 073 - Possible Palaeolithic figure stone, Shaddelow's Farm

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Summary

"Figure stone",quartzite pebble with apparent light engraving of goat. Formerly recorded as NYW MIISC

Location

Grid reference	TL 97 34 (point)
Map sheet	TL93SE
Civil Parish	NAYLAND-WITH-WISSINGTON, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 42000 BC? to 9400 BC?)

Full Description

"Figure stone". Lightly engraved lines on rolled quartzite pebble climbing goat (S1). From 'Field on hill side west of Shad Delow's Farm' - (Shaddelow's Farm is at TL936348). Now in Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (Z 24380)(S2). Dubious.

Formerly recorded as NYW MIISC

Sources/Archives (2)

<S1> SSF59603 Article in serial: Layard Nina. 1913. THE NAYLAND FIGURE STONE.
<S2> SSF50129 Bibliographic reference: Cambridge Univ Museum of Arch & Anth. 1991. Catalogue of Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. Suffolk : Prehistoric Archaeology.

Finds (1)

FSF18136: (Upper Palaeolithic - 42000 BC? to 9400 BC?)

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None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 16 2020 4:27PM