Monument record HNN 004 - Sapiston Bridge (Neo)

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Summary

Finds concentrated in dark areas, "huts", small pits, plain and decorated grooved ware, few bird bone decorated sherds.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 915 748 (155m by 188m)
Map sheet TL97SW
Civil Parish HONINGTON, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Finds concentrated in dark areas, "huts", small pits, plain and decorated grooved ware, few bird bone decorated sherds. Petit tranchet arrowheads, fragments of polished axe, two occupation layers separated by flood sand? Rinyo-Clacton ware (Clacton and Woodland styles).
Flint: 145 serrated flakes, 1 tranchet axe (residual Mes), 1 chisel fragment, 1 broken rectangular polished knife, 76 scrapers, 59 utilised flakes, blades, 1103 burnt stones, 1877 cores, 10,266 flakes. Missile points: 1 leaf (unclassified), 21 chisel (S4).
Notes on Leaf's excavations in Cambridge University Museum archive (S5).

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <S1> (No record type): PCAS, 45, 1952, 30 - 43 (ill).
  • <S2> (No record type): Proc of the Prehistoric Society, 15, 127 (ill).
  • <S3> (No record type): Wainwright & Longworth, Durrington Walls excavations 1966-1968, 1971, 285.
  • <S4> (No record type): Green H S, Flint arrowheads in the British Isles, BAR 75 (ii), 1980, 382, corpus 376.
  • <S5> (No record type): Leaf, C.S.. Leaf C S, Excavation Notes, Cambridge University Museum, Suffolk archive.

Finds (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jul 10 2012 11:16AM

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