NHER 24375 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric burnt and worked flints from South of Fourteen Foot Drain

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a few pieces of prehistoric worked flint and a concentration of prehistoric burnt flints.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF71SW
Civil Parish MARHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

24 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking, weathered ploughed and broken up - reasonable.
Context 1 general scatter. MRM BH.
Couple of flints only, one the nearest thing to a blade, comes from within context 2.

Context 2 at 7028 1066. MRM 37.
Concentration of pot boilers sparse to moderate also the afore mentioned flint. Burnt flints spread from a patch of sand down to the peat. 45m north to south x 33m at 3.7m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 March 1988.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM 37. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MRM BH. 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

Sep 16 2016 2:32PM

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