NHER 21000 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic/Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
11 December 1984. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site FWL 59.
Good conditions; young winter wheat. Concentrations on side of chalk drift ridge emerging quite noticeably from peat. Small sparse flints (quantity dictated by amount of ridge visible) with couple of pot boilers and one fragment of bone. Area about 20m east to west x 15m north to south. Flints predominantly Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (including a scale-flaked knife), although a small number of Mesolithic/Early Neolithic pieces were also identified.
For full details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2).
R. J. Silvester (NAU), 13 December 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 September 2013.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- <S2> 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 (4)
Object Types (5)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Sep 2 2013 4:26PM