Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23236 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site in field east of Broadfen Farm |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered an even spread of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked and burnt flints over a very gentle south slope of island. This is indicative of occupation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 6981 9587 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NE |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
26 January 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Well weathered bare soil.
MTW 110.
Even spread of flint and pot boilers over very gentle south slope of island. One very incomplete arrowhead ? Chalky loam. Maximum 51m northeast to southwest x 26m southeast to northwest at 1.6m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 January 1987.
Flints are Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
F. Healy (NAU).
For full details of wares, flint types, etc. see (S1).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- OCCUPATION SITE? (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 110. 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. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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