Find Spot record BRD 149 - Brandon Park, Brandon, (Prehistoric -Roman?)

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Summary

Fieldwalking of tree planting furrows (40m apart traverses 20m long) by Paul Brooker located scatter of Prehistoric worked and burnt flints.

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Grid reference	Centred TL 774 838 (367m by 261m) Centred on
Map sheet	TL78SE
Civil Parish	BRANDON, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

ARTEFACT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 1000000 BC? to 409 AD?)

Full Description

1997: Fieldwalking of tree planting furrows (40m apart traverses 20m long) by Paul Brooker located scatter of Prehistoric worked and burnt flints. Finds consist of 15 flakes, 19 utilised flakes, 6 cores (1 re-used as hammerstone, 1 burnt), 2 scrapers, 1 knife/scraper and 31 other burnt flints. Variation in patination may(?) suggest more than one period represented.

Also one Roman (?) sherd. Highest lithic and burnt flint densities of any compartment surveyed by Paul Brooker up to the end of 1997. Details in (S1,S2).

Sources/Archives (2)

--- SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: (S1, S2).
<S1> SSF1599 Finds Report: Brooker, P.W.. 1997. Brooker P, finds report & map, December 1997. Brooker P, finds report & map, December 1997.

Finds (8)

FSF22011: POTTERY (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF22012: BURNT FLINT (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF22013: HAMMERSTONE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF22014: CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF49788: FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF49789: RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FSF49790: BACKED BLADE (Late Upper Palaeolithic (Late Magdalenian) to Final Palaeolithic (Hengistbury/Federmesser) - 12700 BC? to 10800 BC?)
FSF49791: SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)