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The Discovery of a Flint “Workshop-Floor” in Ivry Street, Ipswich

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

J. Reid Moir
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The discovery to which this paper refers was made by a series of very fortunate circumstances. A resident in Ivry Street, in the northern portion of Ipswich, was having an inspection pit sunk for his motor car, and during the excavation his gardener, who is familiar with humanly-worked flints, found a number of long flakes at a depth of about three feet from the surface of the ground. These he fortunately preserved and gave to my workman Baxter; who brought them to me.

I at once paid a visit to the site and, owing to the kindness of Mr. Makepeace, the occupant of the house in Ivry Street, was enabled to conduct a series of excavations and to find the various specimens which it is my purpose to describe.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , 1914 , pp. 475 - 479
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1914

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References

1. As there is only about two feet of a somewhat sandy deposit over the “workshop-floor,” it is possible that the isolated pieces of pottery may have worked their way down from the present land-surface.

2. Antea, pp. 210–232.

3. Antea, pp. 374–377.

4. Antea, pp. 338–345.

5. Moir, J. Reid. “A paper on a Workshop Floor of Lower Middle Aurignacian Age.” Journal, Ipswich and District Field Club, Vol. IV., pp. 7–12 Google Scholar.