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James Reid Moir

Header: James Reid Moir
Also known as: James Reid Moir; primary name: Moir, James Reid
Details: individual; merchant/tradesman; archaeologist; British; Male
Life dates: 1910-1943
Biography: A tailor in the family business, James Read Mior became an amateur archaeologist after discovering a flint arrowhead on a golf course and was a major figure in establishing the Paleolithic history of the UK. The greater part of Reid Moir's life was spent investigating the glacial deposits of East Anglia and their contained artifacts for evidence of man's presence in them, including Gipping River valley, Foxhall, and the shore line of Norfolk. He and Lieutenant-Colonel W. Underwood became close friends and he came to know Dr Allen Sturge (q.v.) who lived nearby. In October 1910 he wrote a letter to the Times detailing his conclusions and offered his objects to be examined by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (q.v.) for verification. In a monograph on 'The early Mousterian implements of Sligo' (1928) he collaborated with Mr J. P. T. Burchell (q.v.) who also joined him in several later investigations. In 1929 he was elected President of the Ipswich Museum in succession to Sir E. Ray Lankester (q.v.) and in 1937 he was elected to the Royal Society. A prodigious correspondent, his letters are in Oxford University, Museum of Natural History and the British Museum.
Bibliography: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1, 170 (1910) 'The flint implements of sub-crag man' Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1, 171 (1911) 'The natural fracture of flint and its bearing upon rudi-mentary flint implements' Pre-Paleolithic Man (Ipswich, 1919) The Great Flint Implements of Cromer (Ipswich, 1923) The Antiquity of Man in East Anglia (Cambridge University Press, 1927) Prehistoric Man and Sir Ray Lankester (Ipswich, 1935) Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 4, No. 13 (Nov., 1944), pp. 733-745 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/768859)

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Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

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Museum number: 2011,8097.7 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.4 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.10 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.11 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Orford

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.8 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.2 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.3 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.6 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.5 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

artefact

Museum number: 2011,8097.9 |
Cultures/periods: Upper PalaeolithicMesolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ipswich (Suffolk)

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Museum number: 1913,0304.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41735 Neolithic/Bronze Age |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Friston

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Museum number: 1913,0304.1 |
Cultures/periods: x14337 Neolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Cissbury

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Museum number: 1918,0506.5 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

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Museum number: 1914,0820.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41724 Middle Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Baker's Hole

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Museum number: 1930,0108.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41735 Neolithic/Bronze Age |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:West Runton

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Museum number: 1918,0506.1 |
Cultures/periods: x96124 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Bolton & Co Skeleton Pit

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.20 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1918,0506.6 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

flake

Museum number: 1916,1205.2 |
Cultures/periods: Lower PalaeolithicMiddle Palaeolithic |
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flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.42 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.37 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.41 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1938,1110.5 |
Cultures/periods: x41724 Middle Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Northfleet

flake

Museum number: 1918,0506.8 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

flake

Museum number: 1916,1205.1 |
Cultures/periods: x14337 Neolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Grimes Graves

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.15 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.31 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.30 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

flake

Museum number: 1918,0506.7 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

flake

Museum number: 1943,1101.19 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

handaxe

Museum number: 1918,0506.4 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

handaxe

Museum number: 1931,0311.2 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Hoxne (parish)

handaxe

Museum number: 1916,1205.3 |
Cultures/periods: Lower PalaeolithicMiddle Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Ightham

handaxe

Museum number: 1918,0506.2 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

handaxe

Museum number: 1918,0506.3 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Dovercourt

knapping fragment

Museum number: 1943,1101.7 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

knapping fragment

Museum number: 1943,1101.35 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

knapping fragment

Museum number: 1943,1101.13 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

knapping fragment

Museum number: 1943,1101.36 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Norfolk (England)

knife

Museum number: 1913,0304.4 |
Cultures/periods: x41735 Neolithic/Bronze Age |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Icklingham

nodule

Museum number: 1938,1110.14 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire)

partial biface

Museum number: 1919,1212.8 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Gravesend

partial biface

Museum number: 1919,1212.9 |
Cultures/periods: x103371 Lower Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Gravesend

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