| Finding No | JL/126/71 page 1 |
| Author | Stitch, Bryan |
| Jacobi, Roger |
| Yorkshire Archaeological Society |
| Title | The great Holderness harpoon controversy |
| Date | 1999 |
| Abstract | During the 1920s two archaeological specimens in a private museum in Holderness caused one of the most acrimonious disputes in East Yorkshire archaeology. The director of Hull Museums, Thomas Sheppard, and an amateur archaeologist from Sheffield, A Leslie Armstrong, disagreed strongly over the authenticity of two notched bone points in the possession of the Morfitt family of Atwick. Two committees of enquiry met to consider whether the points were authentic but the outcomes were inconclusive. |
| Type | Local Studies/Article |
| Series | Yorkshire Archaeological Society Journal volume 71 |
| Publisher | Yorkshire Archaeological Society |
| PubDate | 1999 |
| Notes | volumes 70 and 71 bound together |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Subject | PREHISTORY |
| ARCHAEOLOGY |