NHER 23667 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic and later worked flints and Beaker pottery

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Project recovered a small scatter of prehistoric worked flints including one dated to the Mesolithic period. A piece of Beaker period pottery was also found.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79SW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

20 March 1987. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Well weathered soil and beans.

Site MTW DJ.
Occasional worked flints (no concentrations) and one Beaker pottery sherd. The flints were mostly undatable, although a truncated piece was probably Mesolithic.
For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2).
R. Silvester (NAU), 23 March 1987. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 November 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • <S2> Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • RETOUCHED BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Nov 21 2013 11:29AM

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