NHER 23162 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric burnt and worked flints from land formerly part of Thorn Covert

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a small concentration of prehistoric burnt flints and the odd piece of prehistoric worked flint.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF71SW
Civil Parish MARHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

5 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking young cereal, well weathered soil.
Context 2 at above grid reference. MRH 3.
Small sparse concentration of pot boilers beside hollow, no flints. 19m north to south x 13m east to west at 3.1m OD
R. Silvester (NAU), 5 December 1986.

17 December 1986.
Remainder of field walked as Context 1 MRM AC. Details as above.
Odd flint only.
R. Silvester (NAU), 17 December 1986.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM 3. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM AC. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 15 2021 10:55AM

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