Flint Objects (Hepple)
(Area NT 968023) Flint implements found here. (1)
Considerable collection of flints picked up on the farm at Low Farnham. Now in Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. (2)
Mr John Nicholson of the Sheepshanks has collected over fifty flint implements from the fields at Low Farnham. They include four barbed and tanged arrow heads, one leaf shaped arrowhead and three knives or scrapers.
In addition to the implements a large quantity of chippings have been found. All bear the marks of workmanship and were found in one spot in a field known as the Nun's Close.
There is no flint to be found in the neighbourhood so that the material must have been an article of barter between tribes. (3)
The collection of the late D D Dixon, now in the possession of Dr Wilfrid Hall, has been placed on exhibition at Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. It includes six cards, labelled 'Farnham Flints Collected by Mr John Nicholson', containing in all 49 specimens. They include points, flakes, blades and scrapers. Other cards labelled 'Rothbury Flints' include four specimens illustrated in 'Upper Coquetdale' (see authority 3) as coming from Low Farnham. Two of the implements are
barbed and tanged arrowheads and the other two are labelled 'leaf shaped arrow points'.
The number of cores and flakes found at Farnham are clearly the debris of a factory. (4)
Objects exhibited at Trewhitt Hall during a country meeting of the Society of Antiquities, Newcastle, included flints found by Mr John Nicholson at Farnham. (Illustration is a facsimile of that in authy 3). (5)
Neolithic flint implements have been turned up by the plough at Low Farnham and collected by Mr John Nicholson. (Illustrations shows sixteen implements. These comprise two barbed and tanged arrowheads, four, possibly, five leaf-shaped arrowheads, and the remainder knives, points and discoidal scrapers). (6)
Case 26. 'Flints from Low Farnham Farm, Rothbury. The Dixon Collection. Lent by Doctor Wilfred Hall'. (7)
The siting, given by Authority 1, falls upon a steep south-west slope of pasture, which shows rig-and-furrow features. The area was perambulated but no traces of flint were found. The field name, Nun's Close, (Authority 3 refers), is not known locally. (8)
Considerable collection of flints picked up on the farm at Low Farnham. Now in Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. (2)
Mr John Nicholson of the Sheepshanks has collected over fifty flint implements from the fields at Low Farnham. They include four barbed and tanged arrow heads, one leaf shaped arrowhead and three knives or scrapers.
In addition to the implements a large quantity of chippings have been found. All bear the marks of workmanship and were found in one spot in a field known as the Nun's Close.
There is no flint to be found in the neighbourhood so that the material must have been an article of barter between tribes. (3)
The collection of the late D D Dixon, now in the possession of Dr Wilfrid Hall, has been placed on exhibition at Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. It includes six cards, labelled 'Farnham Flints Collected by Mr John Nicholson', containing in all 49 specimens. They include points, flakes, blades and scrapers. Other cards labelled 'Rothbury Flints' include four specimens illustrated in 'Upper Coquetdale' (see authority 3) as coming from Low Farnham. Two of the implements are
barbed and tanged arrowheads and the other two are labelled 'leaf shaped arrow points'.
The number of cores and flakes found at Farnham are clearly the debris of a factory. (4)
Objects exhibited at Trewhitt Hall during a country meeting of the Society of Antiquities, Newcastle, included flints found by Mr John Nicholson at Farnham. (Illustration is a facsimile of that in authy 3). (5)
Neolithic flint implements have been turned up by the plough at Low Farnham and collected by Mr John Nicholson. (Illustrations shows sixteen implements. These comprise two barbed and tanged arrowheads, four, possibly, five leaf-shaped arrowheads, and the remainder knives, points and discoidal scrapers). (6)
Case 26. 'Flints from Low Farnham Farm, Rothbury. The Dixon Collection. Lent by Doctor Wilfred Hall'. (7)
The siting, given by Authority 1, falls upon a steep south-west slope of pasture, which shows rig-and-furrow features. The area was perambulated but no traces of flint were found. The field name, Nun's Close, (Authority 3 refers), is not known locally. (8)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; A S Phillips
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