Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24485 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age and medieval finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey in 1988 recovered a scatter of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked flints. Later metal-detecting in 1991 and 2016 recovered a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint sickle fragment; a Middle Bronze Age dagger still containing one of the rivets that was used to attach the blade to the handle and a medieval lead weight.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 72 95 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
14 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: ploughed and weathered, but ruued.
MTW FM.
Odd flints scattered across southern half of field - mainly chalky loam. Northern half of field not ready for walking.
R. Silvester (NAU), 11 March 1988.
Flints Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
F. Healy (NAU).
Is ruued a mis-spelling of rolled?
E. Rose (NAU).
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
December 1991. Metal detecting find. [1]. Context 2 at [2].
Middle Bronze Age dagger, one loose rivet, one missing; belongs to Burgess Group II (S2); curved hilt line visible on one side.
See (S3) and (S4).
E.B. Green (NCM), 8 May 1992.
January-February 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint sickle fragment.
Medieval lead weight.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 July 2016.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SICKLE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- DAGGER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- WEIGHT (12th Century to 16th Century - 1200 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FM. FENS. |
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | 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> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Burgess. 1963. B.A. dirks & pariers as illustrated by examples from Durham & N'umberland.. Trans. Archit. & Archaeol. Soc. Durham & Northumbe. Vol 1, pp 3-26. |
| <S3> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
| <S4> | Illustration: White, S.. 1992. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age dagger.. Card. 1:1. |
Related records
| 41014 | Parent of: Post medieval and World War Two features and structures (Monument) |