Monument record CAM 049 - Temple Bridge Heath, Cavenham

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Summary

Artefact scatter of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age flint and Late Iron Age to Roman pottery identifed in the backfill from rabbit barrows during an archaeological watching brief

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 757 728 (47m by 51m)
Map sheet TL77SE
Civil Parish CAVENHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Pre 2009? Mesolithic core found in rabbit burrows? Possibly not from this exact location, (S3, S4)

2009: Artefact scatter of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age flint and Late Iron Age to Roman pottery identified in the backfill from rabbit barrows during an archaeological watching brief. Artefacts were found within a 90m by 40m area. These burrows were more than 1m above the floodplain on either a natural scarp or an earthwork. Lithic scatter included a core and a scraper (S1).

2010: Four worked flint pieces comprising a side scraper and three broadly Neolithic debitage flakes, and 11 sherds of Iron Age and Roman pottery were identifed during a watching brief on the construction of a cofferdam. They were found in the backfill of rabbit burrows and mole hill in the same location as the finds from 2009 (S2).

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Atkins, R. and House, J.. 2009. Watching Brief on Site Investigations for the Cavenham-Icklingham Water Level Management Plan.
  • <S2> Unpublished document: Atkins, R.. 2010. Archaeological Watching Brief Report, Land near the Temple Bridge, Cavenham, Suffolk.
  • <S3> Bibliographic reference: Billington, L, P.. 2016. Lithic Scatters and Landscape Occupation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: A Case Study from Eastern England.. M 921.
  • <S4> Digital archive: Jacobi, R.. 2014. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Lithic Artefact (PaMELA) database. 11608.

Finds (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 23 2020 3:45PM

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