NHER 14635 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked and burnt flints, Iron Age, Roman and medieval pottery sherds

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Summary

Three Neolithic to Beaker period flint arrowheads were found here before 1974. A flint scraper and borer are also reported from this field although the exact nature of their discovery is unclear. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered concentrations of prehistoric worked and burnt flints and fragments of Iron Age, Roman and medieval pottery.

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Map sheet	TL68NE
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Pre 1974. Context 2 at 696 896 approximately. Within Curtis field 24.
Petit tranchet derivative.
Also a leaf arrowhead.

Context 3 at 694 896 approximately. Within Curtis field 25.
Barbed and tanged arrowhead. Formerly numbered NHER 14636.
Both taken from Curtis Catalogue by F. Healy (NAU).

14 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking, good conditions, weathered soil, young cereal.
Context 1.
General scatter odd flints from across field. Couple of sherds of medieval pottery and one Roman rim. Also Iron Age sherd. FW1 FF.

Context 4 at 6961 8952.
Concentration of flint sparse to moderate, couple of pot boilers, on chalk slope back from the fen. 27m east to west x 36m north to south at 8.4m OD. FWL 189.
R. Silvester (NAU), 14 April 1988.

F. Healy (NAU) also notes that NCM has a photograph of a leaf arrowhead in the Curtis Collection from this field.

Under grid reference for the centre of this field (S1) lists a scraper and two borers from the Curtis catalogue, but location is wrongly given as 'Hockwold Ordnance Survey 422'.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 November 1993.

For full details of wares and flint types see (S2).

6 March 1997. Fieldwalking.
Prehistoric flint scraper and potsherd.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NAU).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 February 2001.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF14796 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FW1 FF. FENS.
--- SNF14888 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 189. FENS.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk.
<S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (11)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2021 7:46AM