NHER 23442 (Find Spot record) - Concentration of prehistoric burnt flints between angle of Hubbard's Drove and Thistle Hill Road
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HILGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
27 February 1987. Fenland fieldwalking. Field between angle of Hubbard's Drove and Thistle Hill Road.
Well weathered sandy soil.
Context 1. HLG AN.
Scatter of flints and one ?medieval sherd (not completed).
Context 2 at 6293 9842. HLG 2.
Sparse but locally moderate spread of pot boilers and three flints on sandy soil slope. Maximum about 50m northwest to southeast x 20m northeast to southwest at 7.9m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 2 March 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF15496 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG 2. FENS.
- --- SNF15516 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AN. FENS.
- --- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (3)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Jan 17 2025 10:55AM