NHER 5321 (Monument record) - Possible prehistoric burnt mounds and mulit-period finds

Finds recovered from old O.S field 606 (Curtis Field 57).

1965. Stray Find.
Various worked flints and prehistoric pottery sherds found on surface of field by F. Curtis.
Found at TL 6852 8761:
1 ?Mesolithic ?microlith. Described in Curtis' papers as a "blade with bilateral abrupt retouch, forming a point". Information from (S1).

Found at 'Hill 1', TL 6857 8775 (Context 2):
5 Beaker pottery sherds, including 3 sand/flint-tempered comb impressed, 1 incised and 1 rusticated.
24 Bronze Age pottery sherds. Predominantly grog-tempered.
2 fired clay fragments.
3 prehistoric worked flints; 1 flake and 2 scrapers.
Information from file notes and (S1). These finds held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1965.428).

Found at TL 6851 8762 (Context 4):
10 Bronze Age pottery sherds. Predominantly grog-tempered. 1 illustrated in (S1) (Fig. 103: P375).
2 ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint 'thumbnail scrapers'.
3 prehistoric flint flakes.
Information from file notes and (S1). These finds held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1965.429). Previously recorded as NHER 5322.

Found at TL 6857 8744 (Context 5):
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (Beaker) flint dagger. Identified by F. Healy (NAU). No tang, unilateral edge gloss. Information from (S1). Originally described as probably of knife of "Windmill Hill type" (S2). See illustrations (S3) and (S4).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 November 2013.

1953-1965.
Curtis' catalogue lists a number of additional finds that were also found in this field (F35), but for which little additional information is given. The worked flints listed in (S1) are as follows:
1 'slug knife' - almost certainly a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife.
1 blade.
1 scraper.
3 fabricators.
3 other implements.
3 saddle querns, noted on an NCM record map at TL 6848 8745.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 November 2013.

1984. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Finds of several pot boiler sites. Neolithic, Bronze Age flint,
See list in file.
For further details see project archive and final publication.
E. Rose (NAU) 20 March 1984.