NHER 19818 (Monument record) - Early Neolithic occupation site
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL68NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1983. Stray Find.
Found on island surface at [2] (Context 2):
Neolithic polished flint axehead. See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU), 22 December 1983.
Information from (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.
1984. Fenland fieldwalking.
Flints, potboilers.
See details and photographs in file.
R. Silvester (NAU) 9 March 1984
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S4).
(S5) notes that this site, together with NHER 5320, is a possible Early Neolithic occupation site. Other Early Neolithic occupation sites have been recorded in the area indicating that settlement shifted into the Fenland Basin from the river valleys during this period. See (S5) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 10 April 2006
Associated Sources (10)
- --- SNF15372 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW 20. FENS.
- --- SNF15373 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW 21. FENS.
- --- SNF15447 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW AJ. FENS.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF100229 Illustration: Wymer, J. 1983. Drawing of a Neolithic polished flint axehead. Paper. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF9175 Photograph: CLW 1-4 (axe).
- <S3> SNF97838 Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
- <S4> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- <S5> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (6)
- ARROWHEAD (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
May 20 2020 8:58AM