NHER 24488 (Monument record) - Prehistoric occupation site

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked flints. A concentration of prehistoric burnt flints indicative of occupation was recorded. Further fieldwalking in advance of the construction of a pipeline recovered more worked and burnt flints and one piece of prehistoric pot.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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27 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: reasonable. Young cereal, soil weathered; southern quarter of field newly drilled.
Context 1. MTW GD.
General scatter of flint across field. No pottery recognised.

Flints Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
F. Healy (NAU).

Context 2 at TL 7201 9534. MTW 159.
Concentration of pot boilers on top and side of chalk loam ridge 35m north to south x 29m east to west.
R. Silvester (NAU), 27 April 1988.

For details see published report (S1) and project archive (S2).

1992.
Context 3 (east edge of field) is continuation of flint scatter NHER 28950.
See that site for details.
E. Rose (NLA), 13 May 1992.

February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Produced more worked flint, pot boilers and prehistoric sherd.
See reports (S3) and (S4) and list in file for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.74).
E. Rose (NLA) 10 August 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015 and 6 December 2022.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF15886 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 159. FENS.
--- SNF16118 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW GD. FENS.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<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.
<S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S3> SNF64183 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34.
<S4> SNF64182 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992.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 (4)

Object Types (4)

POT BOILER (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)

Related NHER Records (1)

All Groups: NHER 28950 - Related to: Prehistoric worked flints (Find Spot)

Record last edited

Dec 6 2022 7:42AM