NHER 24492 (Monument record) - Undated trackway and prehistoric flints/pot boilers

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Summary

Aerial photography in June 1975 recorded a trackway of unknown date. Later Fenland fieldwalking at the site in March 1988 recovered prehistoric flints and two unrelated scatters of pot boilers.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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22 June 1975. OS aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Trackway.
D. Voisey (NAU) 10 March 1995.

22 March 1988. Fenland Fieldwalking. Conditions: good, ground drilled, weathered (south).
Odd flints across field. Context 1 at site NWD AU on (S1).
Context 2 at TL 7170 9657. Concentration of pot boilers (sparse to moderate) and on eastern edge a small group of flints probably not associated but recorded under this number. Pot boiler on side and top of ridge of stoney loam but flints in patch of sand. Total dimensions: 22m (east-west) x 21m (north-south). Reference NWD 38 on (S1).
Context 3 at TL 7176 9666. Concentration of pot boilers (sparse) on top and side of gravelly loam ridge. No flints observed. Area 45m (northwest-southeast) x 15m (northeast-southwest). Reference NWD 39 on (S1).
R. Silvester (NAU) 22 March 1988.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders (S2).

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF16175 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 38. FENS.
--- SNF16176 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 39. FENS.
--- SNF16200 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AU. FENS.
--- SNF48018 Aerial Photograph: OS 75-269-273.
--- SNF48019 Aerial Photograph: OS 75-269-274.
<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.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (2)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Northwold (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Feb 10 2012 4:09PM