NHER 23655 (Find Spot record) - Concentration of prehistoric burnt flints from between Hubbards 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 |
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Full Description
1 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking. Between Hubbards Drove and Thistle Hill Road.
Well weathered ploughsoil.
HLG 5.
Moderate concentration pot boilers but no obvious flint. Some patches of dense fragments indicate new plough disturbance. Sandy gravelly soil, gentle north slope just within medieval peat stained area. 33m east to west x
28m north to south maximum at 6.1m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 1 April 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF15500 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG 5. 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 (1)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
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Record last edited
Mar 11 2021 8:01AM