NHER 23369 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flints and medieval pottery

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a few pieces of medieval pottery and prehistoric flints including a Mesolithic core and a Beaker period scraper.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL69NW
Civil Parish	HILGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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10 February 1987. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site HLG AJ.
Well weathered soil, young cereal.
Flints, including ?Mesolithic core and ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age thumbnail scraper.
Odd medieval sherds over field.
It should be noted that no finds from this site are mentioned in the final publication of this work (S1).
R. Silvester (NAU), 10 February 1987. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 August 2013.

Associated Sources (2)

--- 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.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (3)

BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2021 8:01AM