NHER 5164 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age pottery scatter and coin and other, multi-period finds

1960.
Casual find of jet button. See (S1).

1964.
Scatter of Neolithic flint.

Pre 1974.
Neolithic flints.

1985. Fenland Projects fieldwalking.
Several discrete concentrations of material identified.

Site FWL DU (c. 1; general scatter).
Scatter flints - not closely datable.

Site FWL DQ (c. 4; 6910 9297).
On ridge just emerging from peat. Small group of patinated flints. Over an area c 20m in diameter. Concentration not sufficient for this to be listed as a site in the final publication. Flints not closely datable.

Site FWL DR (c. 5; 6921 9290).
On gradually sloping plateau. Dispersed flints over an area measuring c 58m NE/SW x 22m NW/SE. Concentration not sufficient for this to be listed as a site in the final publication. Flints not closely datable.

Site FWL DS (c. 6; 6928 9282).
Sparse scatter of flints on ridge. Max dimensions 27m NW/SE x 14m NE/SW. Concentration not sufficient for this to be listed as a site in the final publication. Flints not closely datable.

Site FWL DT (c. 7; 69213 9284).
On edge of pronounced chalk drift ridge. A few flints and one sherd of indet. prehistoric pottery. Concentration not sufficient for this to be listed as a site in the final publication. Flints not closely datable.

Site FWL 141 (c. 8; TL 6929 9293).
On gentle west facing slope. Sparse to moderate concentration of Iron Age pottery (98 sherds) and bone with sparse, potentially contemporary, burnt pebbles and flint. A single sherd of Beaker pottery was also recovered. Min dimensions 71m N/S x 25m E/W.

Site FWL 142 (c. 9; TL 6912 9281).
On side of prominent ridge. Sparse concentration of flint and bone with a few sherds of pottery and the occasional 'pot boiler'. Max dimensions 45m N/S x 38m E/W. The worked flints were predominantly Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (?Beaker period), although a small number of pieces were potentially Mesolithic/Early Neolithic. The small assemblage of prehistoric pottery included 1 indet. Prehistoric sherd, 1 Beaker sherd and 2 grog-tempered Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age sherds.

For further details see project archive (S2) and final publication (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 September 2013.

1991.
Flint chisel found.

1992. Metal detecting.
Roman military buckle. Neolithic and Roman sherds. Neolithic flint.

1993. Fieldwalking.
Iron Age, Roman pottery, medieval hasp.
For full details and (S1) see file, and (S2).
W. Milligan (NCM) 28 April 1993.

March 2002. Metal detecting and fieldwalking.
Negative results.
Search of west part of field around (see Notes) produced no finds of antiquity, but two late post medieval objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 April 2002.

Before 7 February 2005. Metal detecting.
Iron Age coin.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 August 2005.