Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23184 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boiler scatter from field east of Ashwood Lodge |
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Summary
Fenland fieldwalking in the winter of 1986 recorded a scatter of prehistoric pot boilers as well as a few sherds of medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7184 1256 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF71SW |
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| Parish: | PENTNEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
21 November and 4 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking on well weathered soil with young cereal crops growing. Location referred to as PEN AD on (S1).
Context 1: general scatter with a couple of sherds of medieval pottery. Context 2: at [1] a scatter of pot boilers was discovered. The pot boilers cover an area of approximately 40m (east-west) x 30m (north-south).
R. Silvester (NAU) 5 December 1986.
See (S2) for full details of wares, flint types etc.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval - 1000000 BC to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. PEN AD. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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