Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23230 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric occupation site two fields southwest of Harris Farm |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a concentration of prehistoric burnt flints indicative of occupation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7033 9574 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
26 January 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Well weathered soil, young winter cereal.]
MTW 108.
Concentration pot boilers moderate and locally abundant but no flintwork. Spread over the full width of a gravelly loam ridge. 42m north to south x 33m east to west maximum at 0.6-1.5m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 January 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 108. 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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