NHER 23043 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric potboilers/flints from between Fen House and High Fen Drove
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
30 October 1986. Fenland fieldwalking, young cereal, well weathered soil.
Context 1: odd flints and pot boilers scattered across field on island of chalk loam and sandy loam. No obvious concentrations. Site reference NWD AC on (S1).
NCM excavation at [1].
R. Silvester (NAU) 4 November 1986.
11 April 1987. General scatter over east part field, not walked before.
Context 2: odd flints including one gunflint (F. Healy (NAU)). Reference NWD AQ in (S1).
Context 3: located at [2]. A sparse concentration of prehistoric pot boilers and a couple of flints from the edge of a very low chalk ridge 28m (southeast-northwest) x 16m (northeast-southwest) at 3.1m OD. Reference NWD 33 in (S1). NCM as above.
R. Silvester (NAU) 11 April 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF16170 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 33. FENS.
- --- SNF16184 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AC. FENS.
- --- SNF16197 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AQ. FENS.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- <S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (3)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Feb 3 2012 11:09AM