NHER 24485 (Find Spot record) - Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age and medieval finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey in 1988 recovered a scatter of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked flints. Later metal-detecting in 1991 and 2016 recovered a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint sickle fragment; a Middle Bronze Age dagger still containing one of the rivets that was used to attach the blade to the handle and a medieval lead weight.

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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14 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: ploughed and weathered, but ruued.
MTW FM.
Odd flints scattered across southern half of field - mainly chalky loam. Northern half of field not ready for walking.
R. Silvester (NAU), 11 March 1988.

Flints Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
F. Healy (NAU).

Is ruued a mis-spelling of rolled?
E. Rose (NAU).

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

December 1991. Metal detecting find. [1]. Context 2 at [2].
Middle Bronze Age dagger, one loose rivet, one missing; belongs to Burgess Group II (S2); curved hilt line visible on one side.
See (S3) and (S4).
E.B. Green (NCM), 8 May 1992.

January-February 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint sickle fragment.
Medieval lead weight.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 July 2016.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF16103 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FM. FENS.
--- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S2> SNF4970 Article in Serial: Burgess. 1963. B.A. dirks & pariers as illustrated by examples from Durham & N'umberland.. Trans. Archit. & Archaeol. Soc. Durham & Northumbe. Vol 1, pp 3-26.
<S3> SNF51667 Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
<S4> SNF78281 Illustration: White, S.. 1992. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age dagger.. Card. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (5)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SICKLE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
DAGGER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
WEIGHT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1200 AD to 1539 AD)

Related NHER Records (1)

Geographical: NHER 41014 - Parent of: Post medieval and World War Two features and structures (Monument)

Record last edited

Mar 15 2018 3:05PM