Monument record MNL 295 - Mildenhall Drove, Kenny Hill; KH2; OS Field 8600, Mildenhall, (Prehistoric).

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Summary

Thin scatter of scrapers, burnt and worked flints on slight sand ridge, found fieldwalking by Colin Pendleton (scatter KH2) in 1976.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 6710 7927 (80m by 76m) Centred on
Map sheet	TL67NE
Civil Parish	MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish	Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill, Forest Heath, Suffolk

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Type and Period (1)

FLINT SCATTER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)

Full Description

1976: Thin scatter of scrapers, burnt and worked flints on slight sand ridge, found fieldwalking by Colin Pendleton (scatter KH2). Thin scatter of stray worked flints also over rest of field (S1).

Descriptions of flint finds are broad, dating to a specific period bracket is ill-advised. However, they may beat least post glacial, based on details of discovery, (S2).

Sources/Archives (2)

<S1> SSF15678 Unpublished document: Pendleton C F. 1987. Catalogue of finds and findspots,1965-1987, unpublished.
<S2> SSF59348 Personal Correspondence: Cutler, Hannah. 2019. Personal Observations as part of the Enhancement of the Suffolk HER for the Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Periods project.

Finds (3)

FSF50870: BURNT FLINT (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF50871: LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF9909: SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)

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Record last edited

Apr 28 2020 10:56AM