NHER 32344 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint implements and multi-period pottery sherds

1995. Fieldwalking.
Various worked flints recovered during unsystematic collection. Datable pieces included:
1 unmodified Mesolithic or Early Neolithic blade
1 Neolithic transverse chisel arrowhead
1 possible Early Neolithic 'laurel leaf' (unifacially retouched flat blade)
1 crude ?Late Neolithic rod (a bifacial core tool possibly used as either a fabricator or a strike-a-light)
2 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age button/thumbnail scrapers
1 Bronze Age discoidal scraper
Other pieces of probable later prehistoric date included:
1 knife made on blade
1 pick-like borer
1 pebble scraper
2 side scrapers
2 side and end scrapers
1 flake
See file for detailed identifications, site notes and drawings of the flints.
E. Rose (NLA) 26 February 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 July 2013.

September 1998. Fieldwalking.
Additional fieldwalking, concentrated in area to west of public path. Some furrows still visible although vegetation growth prevented detailed survey. Four worked flints were recovered; an unfinished Mesolithic microlith, a heavily patinated blade and two small snapped bladelets. Ten sherds of pottery were also found, of which six were prehistoric, two were possibly Roman, one was medieval and one was undatable. The prehistoric pottery included two grog-tempered sherds of possible Bronze Age date. A thickened rim sherd with fingertip impressed decoration may also be Bronze Age, although it could be Neolithic Mildenhall ware.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 27 October 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 July 2013.