NHER 21141 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic to Early Neolithic worked flints and burnt flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
30 January 1985. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site MTW AU (part of MTW U3 in final publication).
On sandhill of almost pure sand with only odd natural flint rising 0.4m to 0.5m above peat.
Fieldwalking on ploughed and weathered soil. Even scatter of flints and potboilers, with one small pot boiler concentration 5m diameter with a bone fragment adjacent to peaty depression, looking as though turned over en bloc by the plough. The small assemblage of worked flints included pieces of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic date.
For further details see project archive (S1) and final publication (S2). Finds now held by Norwich Castle Museum.
R.J. Silvester (NAU), 1 February 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 September 2013.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- <S2> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (4)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Sep 18 2013 9:49AM