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A Maglemosian Site at Brandesburton, Holderness, Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

J. G. D. Clark  and
H. Godwin
J. G. D. Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
H. Godwin
Affiliation:
Sub-department of Quaternary Research, Cambridge
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The object of this article is to record the discovery of a group of Maglemosian spearheads from Brandesburton and of a single specimen from the foreshore at Hornsea, both in the Holderness region of East Yorkshire; to describe the new finds in detail and to compare them with those previously known from eastern England; and to record (Part II) the results of a palaeoecological investigation of the immediate area of the Brandesburton discovery. The opportunity has been taken to examine and describe afresh all previously known specimens of closely similar type from England, each of which has been redrawn from three aspects and details of which have been photographed to illustrate the technique of manufacture.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 22 , March 1957 , pp. 6 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1957

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page 11 note 1 A full description of these will be found in the present author's Excavations at Star Carr, chap, V, sect. 1. Cambridge Univ. Press (forthcoming).

page 11 note 2 See Armstrong, A. L., ‘The Maglemose Remains of Holderness and their Baltic Counterparts’, Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, IV, pt. 1 (1923), 57–70Google Scholar. See also Man, 1922, no. 75.

page 11 note 3 See Sheppard, T., ‘The Maglemose Harpoons’, The Naturalist, 1923, 169–79Google Scholar. Also, Armstrong, A. L., Man, 1923Google Scholar, nos. 31 and 83.

page 11 note 4 Dr Godwin informs me that additional borings made after his visit in 1932 proved negative and finds it impossible to believe that the ‘harpoon’ could have been found on the site of the Hornsea Gasworks.

page 11 note 5 A. L. Armstrong, op. cit.; also H. and Godwin, M. E., ‘British Maglemose Harpoon Sites’, Antiquity, 1933, 36–48Google Scholar.

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page 13 note 2 Westerly, E., Ymer, 1932, 41Google Scholar; Clark, J. G. D., The Mesolithic Age in Britain, p. 18Google Scholar. Cambridge, 1932.

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