NHER 23209 (Monument record) - Prehistoric pot boilers and flints from High Fen
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
18 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking weathered ploughsoil.
Context 1: general scatter odd flints. Reference NWD AG on (S1).
Includes Bronze Age Scraper - F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2: at 7079 9701 concentration pot boilers sparse, and couple of flints, on ridge of gravelly loam, 17m (northwest-southeast) x 14m (northeast-southwest) at 1.2m OD. Reference NWD 10 on (S1).
Context 3: at 7078 9695 concentration sparse pot boilers on ridge of gravelly loam, 11m diameter at 1.4m OD. Reference NWD 11 on (S1).
Context 4: at 7077 9678 concentration pot boilers moderate to abundant many derived from rounded pebbles. On ridge of gravelly loam. One large chunk of bone but not taken. Area 23m (northwest-southeast) x 21m (northeast-southwest), 0.6-0.2m OD. Reference NWD 12 on (S1).
Context 5: at 7072 9681 concentration pot boilers, sparse, ridge of gravelly loam. Area 21m (northwest-southeast) x 12m (northeast-southwest) at 1.8m OD. Reference NWD 13 on (S1).
Finds held by NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU) 18 December 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF16147 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 10. FENS.
- --- SNF16148 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 11. FENS.
- --- SNF16149 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 12. FENS.
- --- SNF16150 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 13. FENS.
- --- SNF16187 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AG. FENS.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- <S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (4)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
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Record last edited
Feb 10 2012 3:28PM