NHER 23161 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric burnt and worked flints from field southeast of River Nar

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric burnt and worked flints and a concentration of prehistoric burnt flints.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF71SW
Civil Parish MARHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

4 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking, young cereal, well weathered soil.
Context 1 general field scatter. MRM AB.
Some pot boilers and scatter of flint.

Context 2 at 7255 1210. MRM 2.
Concentration pot boilers moderate to abundant, dropping down into peat filled depression adjacent to river. No flints. 18m approximately east to west by less than 28m north to south at 4.6m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 5 December 1986.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM 2. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM AB. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 15 2021 10:55AM

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