Neolithic flint scraper, Heybridge Basin (EHER 7685)

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Summary

A small flint Neolithic flint scraper found in Heybridge Basin and donated to Colchester Museum.

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Grid reference	TL 8700 0600 (point)
Civil Parish	MALDON, MALDON, ESSEX

Type and Period

FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)

Description

Small black flint Neolithic scraper found in Heybridge Basin. In Colchester Museum. The circumstances of discovery and the precise findspot are unknown. <1> <2> Given to Colchester Museum by Miss G.A. Blyth. <3> <4> <5> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.

Finds

SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)

Sources

<1> SEX74 MENTION: Unknown. unknown. SMR.
<2> SEX10 Artifact: Colchester Museum. unknown. ARTEFACT Colchester Museum. Acc No 690.30.
<3> SEX52658 RECORD SHEET/FORM: Ordnance Survey. 1950-1990. OS cards. TL80NE25, 1976.
<4> SEX188 Monograph: Doubleday, H.A.. 1903. Victoria County History, Essex, Vol I (VCH). p.273.
<5> SEX8123 Report: Colchester Museum. 1931. Colchester Museum Report. p.3.

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Non-Archaeological Intervention: Chance find possibly by Miss G.A. Blyth at Heybridge Basin, before 1931 (EEX62182)

Other References

Old SMR Number: TL80
NRHE identifier: 380704
National Monuments Record: TL 80 NE 25

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