NHER 23673 (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
7 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking, rolled and weathered ploughsoil.
Context 1: general scatter odd flints. Reference NWD AM on (S1).
Context 2: at 7057 9685 sparse concentration of pot boilers with one flint (which has been included under context 1) at terminal of sandy loam ridge 22m (northwest-southwest) x 13m (northeast-southwest) at 0.7m OD. Reference NWD 30 on (S1).
Context 3: at 7059 9688 sparse concentration pot boilers except for very dense patch where newly disturbed deposits. No flint. On terminus of sandy loam ridge. If it were not for these patches this would not be a concentration at all 12m (northeast-southwest) x 10m (northwest-southeast) at 0.7m OD. Reference NWD 31 on (S1).
NCM hold finds.
R. Silvester (NAU) 7 April 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF16167 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 30. FENS.
- --- SNF16168 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 31. FENS.
- --- SNF16193 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AM. 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 (2)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
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Record last edited
Feb 10 2012 3:29PM