Monument record MNL 028 - Bronze-Age artefact scatter, including a bronze side looped spearhead, pottery and burnt flint patch. (BA)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 6620 7699 (124m by 84m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL67NE |
Civil Parish | MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Bronze side looped spearhead, 16.3cm long x 2.7cm wide. Found by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) in October - November 1982 on mechanical potato harvester. Findspot (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) approximate only but found about halfway down the length of the field and on the NW side (SE side not cropped at time of find). Lozenge sectioned blade mid-rib. One wing bent at widest point of blade (S2).
Fieldwalking by C Pendleton has produced mass of worked flint, some pottery, both grogged and flint gritted, and various flint and stone artefacts principally of Mes, Neo and EBA date. Also sherd of possible haematite coated pottery (S3).
March 1987 : fieldwalking for Fenland survey revealed mass of worked flint, etc as above and including beaker sherd and barbed and tanged arrowhead at (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). Also burnt flint patch with spread of circa 25m diameter centred at (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). Detailed results not yet available (S4).
Sources/Archives (7)
- <S1> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Archaeol in Suff 1983, PSIA, 35, 1984, (4), 323-324 (ill).
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file : spearhead drawing.
- <S2> SSF15881 (No record type): Pendleton C, The distribution of BA metalwork in NW Suffolk, BA dissertation, Nottingham, 1985.
- <M2> SSF35942 (No record type): Photographs : ANC 01-03 AND 19-20.
- <S3> SSF15678 Unpublished document: Pendleton C F. 1987. Catalogue of finds and findspots,1965-1987, unpublished. Pendleton C, Catalogue of finds and findspots, 1965-1987, unpublished.
- <M3> SSF6326 Excavation archive: Pendleton C. 1990. Fenland Survey Archive. Fenland survey archive : field record and map.
- <S4> SSF18101 Finds Report: Pendleton C. 1987. MNL 028. SAU (Pendleton C), May 1987.
Finds (6)
- FSF2598: SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- FSF2599: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- FSF2600: POTTERY (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- FSF2601: POTTERY BEAKER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- FSF2602: WORKED OBJECT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- FSF2603: ANIMAL REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (2)
Record last edited
Jul 10 2020 1:14PM