NHER 24469 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric burnt and worked flint and one piece of Neolithic pot.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

15 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Good, ploughsoil weathered and rolled.
MTW FO.
Small spread of flints, and one rim sherd of Neolithic pottery, and occasional pot boilers. Insufficient material to classify as a Fenland 'site' on basis of field evidence. Very sandy soil on top of island. 35m north to south by 30m east to west
R. Silvester (NAU), 17 March 1988.

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

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FO. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Feb 3 2011 12:00PM

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