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Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 15/11/1970
Artefact no 3676 , Palaeolithic flake, rolled, stained and patinated, found in the garden of 19a Sicklesmere Road, Bury St Edmunds, on the occasion of my first visit in order to view on Sunday 15th November 1970.
Risby, Suffolk, 28/2/1971
Artefact no 3677 , Flake, patinated, possibly Mesolithic
With mother, Charles and Leigh, to examine the area which has produced white-patinated blades (Hewitt, H.D. Proc. P.S.E.A., 3 (1919) 67-72.
Many flakes on the field along the shallow dry valley, but mainly unpatinated and featureless. Only one seen, patinated and possibly Mesolithic.
The 'Black Ditches' of Hewitt's plan ( his fig 12) is ploughed out save on the the edge of the small pit in chalky boulder clay. Little is left of the tumulus., (sketch plan of site location, with find spot)
(drawing)