Monument record MNL 223 - Cooks Drove, West Row Fen; F1a & b; OS Field 0076 (BA)

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Summary

Concentrated scatter of artefacts discovered field walking on ploughed field surfaces by Colin Pendleton and Patrick Norman between 1965 and 1987.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 6585 7767 (236m by 144m) Centred on
Map sheet TL67NE
Civil Parish MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Concentrated scatter of artefacts discovered field walking on ploughed field surfaces by Colin Pendleton and Patrick Norman between 1965 and 1987. Finds include pottery, including beaker and collared urn sherds, masses of worked flint, split animal bone, a fragment of human (?) skull, 3 bone awls, 1 antler awl, 2 bone needles, worked bone, burnt flint, plano-convex knives, 13 barbed and tanged arrowheads, 1 hollow based arrowhead, 1 oblique arrowhead, 7 transverse arrowheads, 1 tanged arrowhead, 1 reworked polished flint axe, half of a shaft hole hammer, a flat quern stone, hammer stones and an amber bead (MNL 224)(S1).
Incorporated in this scatter are MNL 024, MNL 032, MNL 036, MNL 040 and MNL 224.
See also Neo.

Sources/Archives (8)

  • <S1> (No record type): Pendleton C F, catalogue of material & findspots, 1965-1989, unpublished.
  • <M1> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: map.
  • <S2> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card Neolithic, 1968.
  • <S3> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card BA, 1969.
  • <S4> Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card Neo, 1969.
  • <S5> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Archaeol in Suff, 1968, PSIA, 31, 1968, (2), 196.
  • <S6> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Archaeol in Suff, 1969, PSIA, 31, 1969, (3), 324.
  • <S8> (No record type): CBA Group 7, bulletin 16, 1969, 15.

Finds (16)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jan 6 1992 12:00AM

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