NHER 23231 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints southeast of Washpit Plantation

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a general scatter of prehistoric worked flints and a concentration of prehistoric worked flints about 30m in diameter.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL69NW
Civil Parish	HILGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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8 January 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Young cereal and weathered soil.
Context 1 General scatter. HLG AC.
Odd flints.
Context 2 at TL 6325 9718. HLG AB. HLG U2 in (S1).
Small group of flints perhaps 30m diameter.
R. Silvester (NAU), 8 January 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).

Traces of ridge and furrow cultivation visible on aerial photographs of this location are now recorded under NHER 66465.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 April 2023.

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF15505 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AB. FENS.
--- SNF15506 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AC. FENS.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<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)

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Object Types (1)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 17 2025 10:55AM