Monument record RKN 004 - Broom Hills (Neo)

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Summary

1000 Mes and Neo flints found on this site, belived to be causewayed enclosure by Basil Brown.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TM 042 759 (51m by 50m) Centred on
Map sheet	TM07NW
Civil Parish	RICKINGHALL INFERIOR, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Broom Hills in a multi period site excavated by Basil Brown over 4 years, 1964-1968. Neo flint flakes, scrapers, cores and arrowhead found on this site, reported by Brown to have yielded over 1,000 Mes and Neo worked flints. Saddle quern of sandstone weighing 4 stone also found and Brown reported finding Neo grooved ware sherds in a ditch (no Neo pottery in archive store). A short length of the ditch was excavated and led Brown to believe that the site was once a Neo causewayed camp measuring approximately 90m x 160m (S1)(S2)(S3). Unconfirmed.
Also Mes, Rom, Sax, Un.

Sources/Archives (10)

<S1> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Brown B, XVIII, 12,13; LIII, 3,6-37,40-42; LIX, 1-30; LXXX. Aug-Dec; LXXXI, Jan-Dec; LXXXII, Jan, Ju.
<M1> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Basil Brown archive: volumes, card index, map, site plans 13a,13b,13c.
<S2> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 30, 1965, (1), 122.
<S3> SSF9847 (No record type): IPSMG, OS 25 inch map, M2.
<S4> SSF59794 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.
<S5> SSF50250 Article in serial: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. 1968-69 vol.31.
<S6> SSF60034 Personal Correspondence: Various. Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comment. Mr G Wilby 24 Chapel Lane Botesdale.
<S7> SSF50062 Bibliographic reference: CBA. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin. 1966 vol. 13.
<S8> SSF59830 Source Unchecked: RCHME?. Various. Field Investigators Comments.
<S9> SSF60014 Bibliographic reference: David M Wilson. 1976. The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England.

Finds (4)

FSF2317: WORKED OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF2318: QUERN (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF2319: ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF2320: POTTERY GROOVED (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)

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None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Event - Intervention: Excavation, Broom Hill, Rickinghall (Ref: Brown B) (ESF14812)

Record last edited

Jan 17 2022 12:20PM