Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23208 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boilers from north of High Fen Drove |
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Summary
Fenland fieldwalking on 19 December 1986 recovered a sparse concentration of prehistoric pot boilers.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7107 9702 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
19 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking, field drilled and soil weathered.
Concentration of sparse pot boilers on edge of gravelly loam ridge 14m (northwest-southeast) x 10m (northeast-southwest) at 0.6 to 0.8m OD. Reference NWD 19 on (S1).
Finds held by NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU) 19 December 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc (S2).
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 19. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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