NHER 21142 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic worked flints and burnt flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Project recovered Mesolithic worked and burnt flints on a sand hill.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69NE
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

30 January 1985. Fenland Project fieldwalking.
Site MTW AV (part of MTW U3 in final publication)
On sandhill. Small number of flints and 'pot boilers'. The small assemblage of worked flints included pieces of Mesolithic 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.

  • --- 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.
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 18 2013 9:48AM

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