NHER 23119 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric occupation in field to west of Thornham Farm

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a few prehistoric worked flints and identified two concentrations of prehistoric burnt and worked flints. These are indicative of prehistoric occupation. Metal-detecting in 2018 recovered a Middle Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead.

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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20 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Young cereal, well weathered soil.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW CB.
Odd flints .

Context 2 at 7236 9557. MTW 77.
Concentration pot boilers sparse to moderate and few flints. On edge of peat depression 35m north to south x 30m east to west at 3.7m OD.

Context 3 at 7251 9560. MTW 78.
Concentration of flints, sparse, and few pot boilers. Spread out and over north face of slope. Also quite a few flints beyond this paced out area suggesting that this site might be a more diffuse scatter. 69m north to south x 30m east to west at 5.2m OD
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 November 1986.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

June-July 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy barbed and tanged arrowhead (S2).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 October 2018.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF15948 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 77. FENS.
--- SNF15949 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 78. FENS.
--- SNF16020 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CB. FENS.
--- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S2> SNF99578 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age arrowhead. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.