Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23679 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boilers and flints from near to Cut Off Channel |
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Summary
Fenland fieldwalking in April 1987 recovered prehistoric pot boilers and flints (including scrapers) dating to the prehistoric period and Early Bronze Age.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7161 9700 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
7 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking, rolled and weathered ploughsoil.
Context 1: general scatter odd pot boilers and flint scattered across field and including on one sandy loam ridge a small group of scrapers and few other flints at 7163 9703. Reference NWD AN on (S1).
These flints are Beaker period - F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2: at 7167 9713 moderate spread pot boilers but no flint on upland edge. Sandy loam. Area 22m (northwest-southeast) x 16m (northeast-southwest) at 1.6m OD. Reference NWD 32 on (S1).
NCM hold the finds.
R. Silvester (NAU) 7 April 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (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)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD 32. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AN. 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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