NHER 21145 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric pot boilers and Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1985 as part of the Fenland Project recorded a sparse scatter of prehistoric burnt flints ('pot boilers') and Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flints at this location.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SW
Civil Parish SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1 February 1985. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site MTW 37 (TL 6407 9412).
On top of grey sand virtually flush with peat surface surface of sand mixed with peat. Scatter of sparse flints and 'pot boilers' Max dimensions 42m N/S x 15m E/W. Although the worked flints were predominantly of early in date it appeared that the assemblage was multi-period with both Mesolithic and potentially Early Neolithic pieces present. The Mesolithic flints included a microlith fragment.

For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). Finds now held by Norwich Castle Museum. Note: although this list is listed by (S2) as lying in Methwold parish it is actually in Southery.
R. J. Silvester (NAU) 19 February 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 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 (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • SERRATED BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)

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Record last edited

Apr 24 2018 12:29PM

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