Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20347 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint and pottery |
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Summary
A Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead was found before 1978. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of Early and Late Neolithic worked flints. A sparse spread of pieces of Neolithic period pot was found. An auger survey found that it is likely that evidence of occupation is still covered by peat. The site represents Neolithic settlement close to the forerunner of the River Wissey.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 6506 9655 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NE |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
17 April 1984. Fenland fieldwalking
Well weathered soil with plant growth beginning.
Context 1. General scatter. MTW AK.
Odd flint flakes from sand island. Early and Late Neolithic - F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2 at 6509 9658. MTW 6.
Sparse spread Neolithic pottery, around thirty sherds, and sparse flints. Few obvious bone fragments. On east slopes of sand island (very little stone content) but not spreading quite as far as peat edge. Slope of island is gentle.
R. Silvester (NAU), 17 April 1984.
Undated, pre 1978. Context 3 at 649 965 very approximate (and so not marked on map).
Leaf arrowhead, scraper and flakes found 'over several years in area of low sand swell' by [1].
Information from (S1).
Must be same as NHER 20347
R. Silvester (NAU).
Formerly numbered NHER 13455.
E. Rose (NAU), 2 August 1985.
1989 to 1990. Further fieldwork on Context 2 during Fenland Evaluation Project.
Auger traverse; excavation of sondage to sample the waterlogged buried soil around the site.
It is likely that evidence of occupation is still covered by peat. The site represents Neolithic settlement close to the forerunner of the River Wissey. Other sites may still be buried by peat.
See (S2).
M. Leah (NAU), August 1990.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S3).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 6. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW AK. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 NW 23. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Leah, M. D. (NAU) and Mathews, M. (NAU). 1990. Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Dossier. |
| <S3> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
Related records
| 59580 | Part of: Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site (Monument) |