NHER 24487 (Monument record) - Neolithic occupation site and Iron Age settlement
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
27 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: Reasonable. Young cereal, soil weathered but recently rolled.
Context 1. MTW GC.
Odd flints and medieval pottery scattered across field. One sherd of prehistoric pottery (pre Iron Age) at 7226 9520.
Flints are Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, some gunflint.
F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2 at TL 7244 9518. MTW 158.
Concentration of Iron Age pottery, bone, and broken burnt pebbles on gentle chalk slope down to stream on north. 35m east to west x greater than 15m north to south. Could run into field to north, but not recognised when walked some weeks previously.
Context 3 at TL 7234 9520. MTW 157.
Concentration of flints with pot boilers on gentle slope south of stream course 42m east to west x 31m north to south.
R. Silvester (NAU), 27 April 1988.
Context 3 flints alone are Neolithic.
F. Healy (NAU).
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF15884 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 157. FENS.
- --- SNF15885 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 158. FENS.
- --- SNF16117 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW GC. FENS.
- --- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (8)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 27 2021 7:43AM