NHER 20324 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic/Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking undertaken as part of the Fenland Project identified a scatter of worked flints and 'pot boilers' (burnt flints) at this site. The worked flints were predominantly of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date, although a small number of pieces were potentially Mesolithic/Early Neolithic.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

22 March 1984. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site HCW 57.
Well weathered ploughed soil. On south slope of sand island; may stretch further north but obscured by spoil from dyke cleaning. Moderate scatter of flints and sparse to moderate 'pot boilers'. Max dimensions 30m E/W x 20m N/S. The worked flints were predominantly Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, although a small number of pieces (blades and an end scraper made on a serrated blade fragment) were of probable Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date.

For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). The finds are now held by the Norwich Castle Museum.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • <S2> Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • END SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
  • SERRATED BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
  • CORE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 11 2017 9:35AM

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