NHER 4745 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints

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Summary

Neolithic worked flints were found here before 1929. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre 1929.
Surface flint site walked by [1]. Site no.2, Freemans and Wortleys Land on other side of road to NHER 4744.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

8 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
On weathered surface, cereal a little dense in places.
Context 2 at TL 7266 9638c. MTW FX.
Odd flints scattered over field, no 'sites'.

Context 3 at 7260 9657c. MTW FY.
Odd flints across this area of field.
Conditions as for context 2.
R. Silvester (NAU), 8 April 1988.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FX. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FY. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Northwold.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 79 NW 7.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 5 2016 10:31AM

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