NHER 20325 (Find Spot record) - ?Mesolithic 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 two blades were potentially Mesolithic.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

22 March 1984. Fenland Survey fieldwalking.
Well weathered plough soil. On south slope of island. Moderate spread of flints with sparse 'pot boilers' becoming common to south-west. Max dimensions 37m NE/SW x 31 NW/SE. The worked flints were predominantly Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, several blades (including two fine, slender examples) were potentially Mesolithic.

For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). Finds now held by Norwich Castle Museum.
R. Silvester (NAU) March 1984. 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.
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 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)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • RETOUCHED 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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