Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20346 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Neolithic and early bronze age pottery and flint |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints. A sparse spread of pieces of Neolithic and Beaker period pot was found. An augur survey found that it is likely that evidence of occupation is still covered by peat. The site represents Neolithic settlement close to the forerunner of the River Wissey. A skeleton may also come from the site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 650 967 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NE |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
17 April 1984. Fenland fieldwalking.
Well weathered field with plant growth beginning.
Context 1. MTW AL.
General scatter of odd flints from sand island.
Context 2 at 6504 9669. MTW 7.
Sparse spread Neolithic pottery (around twenty sherds) and few flints and bone fragments. On slope of sand island. 21 x 17m.
R. Silvester (NAU), May 1984.
Also Beaker and Bronze Age pot.
Flints are Early Neolithic and Beaker.
F. Healy (NAU).
Note adjacent NHER 2542, human skeletal remains, which may not be accurately placed and might be on this site.
1989 to 1990. Further fieldwork during Fenland Evaluation Project.
Auger traverse across Context 2; exploratory sondage through the buried soil associated with the site.
It is likely that evidence of occupation is still covered by peat. The site represents Neolithic settlement close to the forerunner of the River Wissey. Other sites may still be buried by peat.
See (S1).
M. Leah (NAU), August 1990.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 7. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW AL. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | 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> | Unpublished Document: Leah, M. D. (NAU) and Mathews, M. (NAU). 1990. Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Dossier. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
Related records
| 59580 | Part of: Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site (Monument) |
| 2542 | Related to: Bronze Age inhumations at Methwold Severalls (Monument) |
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