NHER 5195 (Monument record) - Prehistoric finds

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Summary

A Bronze Age to Iron Age pottery vessel, a Bronze Age to Iron Age flint hammerstone, a fragment of Bronze Age to Iron Age saddle quern, prehistoric worked and burnt flints, animal bone and an unperforated Neolithic macehead were found.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SE
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1961. From recently ploughed field = context 1.
Sherd of Late Bronze Age bucket urn (but on head of card, Bronze Age is altered to Iron Age), flint hammerstone; fragments of saddle quern.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

26 February 1985. Context 2 at 6956 9080.
Concentration of sparse flints, sparse to moderate pot boilers, sparse bone. On ridge side sloping down to peat filled gully in weathered soil with young cereal. 30m north to south x 22m east to west. FWL 112.
R. Silvester (NAU), 26 February 1985.

Before 1991. Context 3 at TL 6958 9081.
Half an unperforated macehead. Petrology No. N314. Quartz arenite - origin uncertain. See (S1) for details (drawing of object on reverse).

Identified by Dr R. V. Davis, 9 January 1992.
W. Milligan (NCM) 14 January 1992.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 112. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Feltwell.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Record Card: Council for British Archaeology Implement Petrology Card. N314.
  • <S2> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • MACE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
  • QUERN (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 25 2015 4:53PM

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