NHER 24495 (Monument record) - Possible Neolithic occupation sites

28 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: moderate only; carrots ridged-up but rotting and cereal with high weed content.
Context 1.
Odd Beaker flints from across field. Also two sherds of prehistoric pottery, one identified as Beaker.

Context 2 at 7010 9588. MTW 162.
On a stony loam ridge. Maximum 31m east to west x 29m north to south at 1.2m OD.
Concentration of pot boilers (moderate) but no flints.

Context 3 at 6991 9581. MTW 163.
On a ridge of stony loam. Concentration of pot boilers (sparse to moderate) . 20m northeast to southwest x 15m northwest to southeast at 1.0m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 April 1988.

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

F. Healy (NAU) notes that in the Wortley collection there are sherds from this field of Rusticated and Late Beaker type, and a possible Bronze Age sherd - thick, grogged, ridged and perforated after firing.
E. Rose (NLA), 30 November 1993.

April 1995. Fieldwalking. General scatter, part of Context 1.
Beaker sherd.
Neolithic flints: two scrapers, serrated piece, backed knife and six flakes and fragments.
See list in file.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM) 1 May 1995.
W. Milligan (NCM), 18 May 1995.

1996, reported 1998. Surface finds by [2].
Polished Neolithic flint axe.
Neolithic leaf arrowhead.
Neolithic transverse arrowhead.
Two sherds early Neolithic bowls.
One Beaker sherd.
Various flint waste and burnt flint.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 November 1998.

1996.
Finds published in (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 21 December 2004.