The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Hoxne

Suffolk (County [UK]), England


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Description of institution: A village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. In 1797, John Frere (1740-1807) found flint hand tools twelve feet deep in Hoxne Brick Pit, and he was the first person to recognise ancient tools as being man-made. URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoxne