NHER 24494 (Monument record) - Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
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).
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF15883 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 156. FENS.
- --- SNF16115 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FZ. 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 (1)
Object Types (5)
- 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