Record Details

NHER Number:24133
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric pot boilers

Summary

Fenland fieldwalking here in 1987 recorded a sparse scatter of prehistoric pot boilers.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 6105 9584
Map Sheet:TL69NW
Parish:SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

12 November 1987. Fenland fieldwalking, weathered soil, cultivated, not ploughed.
Concentration of pot boilers, sparse and diffuse, on sandy loam slope. No flint. Minimum of 47m east-west x 37m north-south at 2.4m OD. Site SRY 3.
Finds held by NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU) 12 November 1987.

For full details of wares, flint types etc. see Fenland Folders.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (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. SRY 3. FENS.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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