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A “Cissbury Type” Station at Great Melton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

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In January, 1916, we discovered the east end of a “Cissbury type,” station at Great Melton, Norfolk, on the south bank of the River Yare, and at the same time Mr. J. E. Sainty, B.Sc., discovered the west end, including a pit in which flakes were exposed in a layer about a foot from the surface, resting on a stiff loam into which the flakes had sunk in some places. The layer was not continuous, but at one place there was a solid mass of cores and flakes, the latter ranging in size from huge specimens to quite minute pieces. The flakes, with which were mingled several potboilers, varied in colour from blue to white, and were so tightly packed together as only to be extracted with difficulty. In a very few cases the striking platforms were facetted.

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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1917

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* On a chalk slope near the Somme in October, 1916, Pioneer J. E. Sainty, B.Sc., found over 60 “Cissbury” flakes, almost all with crust, and resembling small Ringland specimens. There was one scraper, and several of the flakes had facetted butts.