Record Details

NHER Number:23671
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric pot boilers and flints from High Fen

Summary

Fenland fieldwalking in April 1987 recovered odd flints and pot boilers but in no great quantity.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7114 9675
Map Sheet:TL79NW
Parish:NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

7 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking, rolled and weathered ploughsoil.
Odd flints and pot boilers, no concentrations. Reference NWD AK on (S1).
NCM hold finds.
R. Silvester (NAU) 7 April 1987.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).

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. NWD AK. 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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