Breaking New Ground
Reconnecting People with The Brecks
More info & Useful links
Useful heritage links
- Norfolk Heritage Explorer - http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/home
- Suffolk Heritage Gateway - http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/chr/herdetail.aspx?crit=&ctid=95&id=4767
Local interest groups
- Norfolk Geodiversity Partnership - https://sites.google.com/site/norfolkgeodiversity/
- GeoSuffolk - http://www.geosuffolk.co.uk/
- Breckland Society - http://www.brecsoc.org.uk/
Books
- ‘On the manufacture of gun-flints, the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palæolithic man, and the connexion between Neolithic art and the gun-flint trade’, by SBJ Skertchly, 1879 – downloadable from https://archive.org/details/onmanufactureofg00skerrich/
- ‘The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain’ by J Evans (Longmans Green & Co, 1897) – downloadable from https://archive.org/details/ancientstoneimpl00evanuoft/
- 'From Brandon to Bungay’ and ‘Evolution of a Breckland Landscape’ by RG West (Suffolk Naturalists Society; 2009 & 2015) - buy both from http://www.sns.org.uk/pages/books.shtml
British Geological Survey maps
- Thetford - http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1001846
- Bury St Edmunds - http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1001684
Museums featuring Brecks archaeology
- Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life - http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_us/Ancient_House/index.htm
- Brandon Heritage Centre - http://www.brandonsuffolk.com/brandon-heritage-centre.php
- Mildenhall Museum -http://mildenhallmuseum.co.uk/collections/prehistory/
