NHER 19905 (Monument record) - Prehistoric flints and pot boilers

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Summary

Prehistoric flints, including a Bronze Age scraper, and pot boilers recovered during the Fenland fieldwalking survey.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

9 January 1984. Fenland fieldwalking.
Along top and down sides of island consisting of sand with some flint gravel, towards its tip.
Moderately dense scatter of pot boilers with some flints particularly along southern edge of scatter.
30m x 18m northeast to southwest.
R. Silvester (NAU) 10 January 1984.

One scraper is Bronze Age.
F. Healy (NAU).

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

1996/1997. Within reservoir investigation area.
For palaeoenvironmental appraisal see 5292.
D. Gurney (NLA) 23 May 1997.

1990s. Casual find.
Beaker period flint scraper and prehistoric flint flake.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 31 October 2009.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HCW 14. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 10 2017 4:03PM

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