Robins, P. A. and Wymer, J. J. (1994). A long blade flint industry beneath boreal peat at Titchwell, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology 42 (1). Vol 42(1), pp. 13-37. https://doi.org/10.5284/1077055. Cite this via datacite
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A long blade flint industry beneath boreal peat at Titchwell, Norfolk | ||||||||||
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Norfolk Archaeology 42 (1) | ||||||||||
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Norfolk Archaeology | ||||||||||
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42 (1) | ||||||||||
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13 - 37 | ||||||||||
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Describes a flint industry mainly recovered from the beach at Titchwell over a period of several years. Similar material was eventually found in situ beneath a complex sequence of stratified peats and estuarine and marine clays, only visible at exceptionally low tides. It was concluded that this was the source from which the material on the beach had come, washed by waves from its place of discard to near the high water mark. It is an industry based on elegant blade production (some of considerable length) with scrapers, burins, various retouched pieces but no microlithic or axe/adze element. Such is typical of the general tradition of flintwork produced by itinerant hunter-gatherers of north-west Europe during the Late Glacial--Early Post-Glacial periods. This is the first time that such an industry has been found in Norfolk in any quantity and which can be related to a stratigraphic context. It indicates human activity or settlement on an inland, open site, possibly close to a river. The site was gradually inundated by the Post-Glacial rise in sea level. Radiocarbon dating and palynological evidence shows that the site could not have been occupied after about 7, 000bc. `The stratigraphy of the Titchwell foreshore, north Norfolk' by P G Hoare & C O Hunt (19-21) is followed by details of the flint industry itself, and `The diatom profile' by J Barnard (31-3), `Foraminifera' by J E Robinson (34), `Charcoal' by P Murphy (34), and a section on dating methodology including `Radiocarbon' by V R Switsur and `Thermoluminescence' by N Debenham & S G E Bowman (34-6). | ||||||||||
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1994 | ||||||||||
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12 May 2020 |
