NHER 22315 (Monument record) - Mesolithic worked flints and possible Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age occupation site

6 March/21 April 1986. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site HCW 88.
On sandy island adjacent to Little Ouse roddon and bisected by field dyke. A sparse to moderate spread of worked flints and 'pot boilers' with a few fragments of bones. Max dimensions 130m E/W x 25m N/S. The majority of the flint assemblage was of probable Late Neolithic/Early Bronze date (?Beaker), including three scale-flaked knives, a plano-convex knife and a thumbnail scraper. The notable exception was a Mesolithic obliquely blunted point and it was possible that a number of blades were also of a similar date. These potentially early flints were mostly recovered in the western part of the site.
A single sherd of indet. Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery was also found.

For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). The finds are now held by the Norwich Castle Museum.
R.J. Silvester (NAU) 10 March 1986. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2013.

1989 to 1990. Fenland Evaluation Project.
Auger traverse across the site, out towards the fen clay to the south; also excavation of a sondage through the peat to sample the buried soil.
Dossier prepared for HBMC, see copy in file (S3).
M.D. Leah (NAU) August 1990.