NHER 23674 (Monument record) - Possible prehistoric occupation site

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints. A concentration of prehistoric burnt flints was recorded. This may be indicative of occupation.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

23 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Young cereal, weathered soil.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW EF.
Odd flints.

Context 2 at 7064 9603. MTW 133.
Concentration of pot boilers (sparse to locally moderate) and couple of flints on slight natural mound of chalk loam. Minimum 36m east to west by less than 18m north to south at 2.4m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 26 April 1987.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 133. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW EF. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • --- 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

Jul 7 2017 8:35AM

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