Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23231 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval ridge and furrow and prehistoric worked flints southeast of Washpit Plantation |
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Summary
Parchmarks of medieval ridge and furrow can be seen on an aerial photograph. 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
22 June 1975. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Parchmark cropmarks. Ridge and furrow.
D. Voisey (NLA), 6 March 1995.
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).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RIDGE AND FURROW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AB. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. HLG AC. FENS. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS 75-269-209. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS 75-269-210. |
| --- | 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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