NHER 19957 (Monument record) - Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints and burnt flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Project recovered prehistoric burnt and worked flints on a small patch of sand on a more extensive island of sandy loam with gravel above the peat. The worked flints included pieces of Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date. A fragment of a prehistoric stone shaft-hole implement was also recovered.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NW
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

17 January 1984. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site FWL 13.
Small patch of sand, part of more extensive island area. Predominately sandy loam with gravel, rather than purer sand. Island barely projects above peat level and material is scattered sparsely all over its surface.
Principally a 'pot boiler' site, though with some Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints. A small fragment of an unreconstructable shaft-hole implement was also recovered. For further details see project archive (S1) and published report (S2).
R. Silvester (NAU), 17 January 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 August 2013.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • <S2> Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • PERFORATED OBJECT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Apr 24 2018 12:28PM

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