NHER 23212 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric burnt and worked flints from field north of String Drain east of Cut-Off Channel

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered three concentrations of prehistoric worked and burnt flints. In 1992 more prehistoric flints were recovered during the construction of a pipeline.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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23 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking. MTW CP, CO, CN.
Weathered soil, some regeneration.
Concentration of pot boilers and flint with prehistoric sherd.
Details in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 8 January 1987.

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

1991. Watching Brief.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline. Context 9 at [1].
Flints.
Pot boilers.
See report (S3) and note in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 August 1992.

Associated Sources (14)

--- SNF15955 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 83. FENS.
--- SNF15956 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 84. FENS.
--- SNF15957 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 85. FENS.
--- SNF15958 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 86. FENS.
--- SNF15959 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 87. FENS.
--- SNF16030 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CN. FENS.
--- SNF16031 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CO. FENS.
--- SNF16032 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CP. FENS.
--- SNF97838 Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S2> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
<S3> SNF64182 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. The Wellington Plantation - Stoke Ferry Pipeline. A Summary of Archaeological Work undertaken on the route of the Pipeline. February-August 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 29.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Object Types (3)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Sep 15 2015 5:18PM