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A Flaking Site on Kelling Heath, Norfolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

J. E. Sainty
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The site occupies the top and upper slope of the gravel plateau O.D. 200 feet, ¾ mile West by South of Weybourne Station. (See Ordnance Datum Map, Norfolk, Sheet X., S.W., 6-ins. to 1 mile). It consists of unploughed heathland, mainly undisturbed, though during the war some trenches were dug, whilst, at some past date, heather “turves” have been cut for the making of a turf bank, possibly an old boundary bank. As a result stony patches occur among the heather, and it was the discovery in August, 1923, by my daughter, Olive, of a worked point (Fig. 11) on one of these patches that led to the investigation of the site.

The parish boundary between Weybourne and Kelling lies at the foot of the eastern slope of the plateau at this spot. 1,100 yards East by South is a tumulus, adjoining which are the “Weybourne Pits,” whilst just over a mile west by north lie a series of tumuli on Salthouse Heath.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1924 , pp. 165 - 176
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1924

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* In using the terms “right” and “left” with regard to these specimens I am referring to the sides which occupy these respective positions when the flint is held with the bulbar surface underneath and the point directed away from the observer.