Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24494 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation site |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints including a Late Neolithic arrowhead. A concentration of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age worked and burnt flints indicative of occupation was identified.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7221 9562 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
8 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: weathered surface, cereal.
Context 1. MTW FZ.
Odd flints scattered across field. Note small group towards southeast corner.
Includes Late Neolithic arrowhead.
F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2 at 7209 9564. MTW 156.
Concentration of flints (sparse to moderate) and a few pot boilers. On chalk, peat-covered (by moderate) soil. 43m east to west x 25m north to south at 2.7m OD
Flints Beaker.
F. Healy (NAU).
R. Silvester (NAU), 8 April 1988.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
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)
- ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 156. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FZ. FENS. |
| --- | 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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