Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23231 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric worked flints southeast of Washpit Plantation |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a general scatter of prehistoric worked flints and a concentration of prehistoric worked flints about 30m in diameter.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 6324 9718 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NW |
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| Parish: | HILGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
8 January 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Young cereal and weathered soil.
Context 1 General scatter. HLG AC.
Odd flints.
Context 2 at TL 6325 9718. HLG AB. HLG U2 in (S1).
Small group of flints perhaps 30m diameter.
R. Silvester (NAU), 8 January 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Traces of ridge and furrow cultivation visible on aerial photographs of this location are now recorded under NHER 66465.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 April 2023.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AB. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AC. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
Related records - none
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