NHER 24494 (Monument record) - Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints including a Late Neolithic arrowhead. A concentration of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked and burnt flints indicative of occupation was identified.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

8 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: weathered surface, cereal.
Context 1. MTW FZ.
Odd flints scattered across field. Note small group towards southeast corner.
Includes Late Neolithic arrowhead.
F. Healy (NAU).

Context 2 at 7209 9564. MTW 156.
Concentration of flints (sparse to moderate) and a few pot boilers. On chalk, peat-covered (by moderate) soil. 43m east to west x 25m north to south at 2.7m OD
Flints Beaker.
F. Healy (NAU).
R. Silvester (NAU), 8 April 1988.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 156. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FZ. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 15 2015 5:19PM

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