Record Details

NHER Number:22982
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric pot boilers and flints

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1986 noted a small scatter of prehistoric flints and pot boilers.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6712 1145
Map Sheet:TF61SE
Parish:WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

16 October 1986. Fenland fieldwalking WGY 9. Not ploughed, surface weathered and disced.
Along gravelly sand ridge protruding from peat by about 0.4m scatter of pot boilers and odd flints. Nowhere are pot boilers particularly dense. NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU), 19 October 1986.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WGY 9. FENS.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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