NHER 24837 (Monument record) - Prehistoric hearths, Hockwold Fen

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Summary

Two prehistoric hearths excavated in 1960. A number of other prehistoric hearths were also excavated in Hockwold Fen in the 1960s.

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Location

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Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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January to February 1960.
Two hearths cut into the ground.
One sealed with puddled chalk with further hearth material above it.
Excavated by Frank Curtis.
See (S1).
These cannot be identified with other pairs of hearths excavated by him in Hockwold cum Wilton because the letters (S1) make it clear that the excavation was over by mid February 1960.
Other pairs of hearths (NHER 5308/c1-2, 5332, 5317/c3) were all excavated in 1962 or later.
Photocopy of (S1) and sketches in file.
F. Healy (NAU) 5 October 1988

  • --- Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Correspondence: Curtis, W.F.. 1960. Letters to Sophia Mottram (KLM). January and February. 1.

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Record last edited

Mar 20 2006 11:04AM

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