NHER 17571 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric finds scatter

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Summary

Fragments of Iron Age pottery, worked flint cores and a flint hammerstone were found here after the stubble was burnt off the field. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked and burnt flints and some bone.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL69SE
Civil Parish	FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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20 September 1981. Found after the field had been burnt off but not yet ploughed. Context 2 at above grid reference.
Nine dark, sand gritted Iron Age sherds.
Two flint cores.
One flint hammer stone.
F. Healy (NAU), 22 September 1981.

26 February 1985. Fenland fieldwalking. Context 1.
Surrounding above.
Concentration of sparse flints, pot boilers and sparse bone. On edge of ridge dipping down into peat filled gulley. 27m north to south x 19m.
R. Silvester (NAU), 25 February 1985.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF14811 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 111. FENS.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (6)

CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
HAMMERSTONE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2013 11:39AM