NHER 64452 (Monument record) - Possible post-medieval flint extraction pit

7 September 2018.
A large pit measuring approximately 60m diameter is depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (S1) and is visible as an earthwork on a Google Earth image (S2) taken in October 2003. J. Gibbons (HES) suggests that this pit may have been a post-medieval flint extraction pit (See Portable Antiquities Scheme record NMS-28C404) as a large number of post-medieval gunflints and debitage have been recovered immediately to the north-east. The gunflints and debitage are recorded under NHER 25706. An additional, but much smaller, possible extraction pit is recorded at NHER 64453 to the north-east, beyond the flint assemblage. The three sites may represent a previously unknown post-medieval gunflint manufacturing site (NHER 64451). This site, however, shows no evidence of horseshoe-shaped spoil heaps and other features often associated with such manufacturing sites.
E. McDonald (HES) and A. Beckham (HES), 28 August 2020.