NHER 20346 (Find Spot record) - Early Neolithic and early bronze age pottery and flint

17 April 1984. Fenland fieldwalking.
Well weathered field with plant growth beginning.
Context 1. MTW AL.
General scatter of odd flints from sand island.

Context 2 at 6504 9669. MTW 7.
Sparse spread Neolithic pottery (around twenty sherds) and few flints and bone fragments. On slope of sand island. 21 x 17m.
R. Silvester (NAU), May 1984.

Also Beaker and Bronze Age pot.
Flints are Early Neolithic and Beaker.
F. Healy (NAU).

Note adjacent NHER 2542, human skeletal remains, which may not be accurately placed and might be on this site.

1989 to 1990. Further fieldwork during Fenland Evaluation Project.
Auger traverse across Context 2; exploratory sondage through the buried soil associated with the site.
It is likely that evidence of occupation is still covered by peat. The site represents Neolithic settlement close to the forerunner of the River Wissey. Other sites may still be buried by peat.
See (S1).
M. Leah (NAU), August 1990.

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