NHER 17616 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic microliths and potentially Mesolithic flint axeheads

January 1969. Stray Find.
2 "axes". This findspot is marked on a KLM 6" record map (S1). Information from (S2). Possibly Mesolithic (see below).
E. Rose (NAU) 2 October 1981.

March 1970. Stray Find.
2 "microliths". This findspot is marked on a KLM 6" record map (S1). Information from (S2).

This information makes it highly likely that this site is "Days Fen", where it is recorded in (S3) that two microliths were found by [1]. Although these were previously recorded as being from NHER 13316, this would appear to be an error. This site (NHER 17616) lies close to the area known as Barton Bendish Fen and is much closer to the general grid reference listed in (S3). The microliths listed in (S3) were identified by R. Jacobi and the information in his records (S4) also appears to support this site being the source of these objects. Jacobi listed them as having been found in March 1970 and recorded the site as lying "just below the 20ft [6m] contour, in alluviated lateral valley of River Wissey". This tallies with both the date given on (S1) and the topographical situation of the site.

Jacobi also examined two axes/adze that had also found at "Days Fen" by [1] - these are presumably the "axes" known to have been found here in 1969 (see above). These are recorded in (S4) as being possibly Mesolithic, although they are not listed in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 November 2013.