Monument record BRD 018 - Staunch Meadow, Brandon, (Terminal Palaeolithic - Mesolithic).

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Summary

1980-1988: scatter of Mesolithic worked flint, including `knapping areas' found during excavations by SAU.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 7794 8658 (412m by 263m) Centred on
Map sheet TL78NE
Civil Parish BRANDON, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

1980-1988: Scatter of Mesolithic worked flint, including `knapping areas' found during excavations by SAU. Details in excavation archive (S1)

For summary of excavations see (S2-S6). Excavation ongoing in 1988.

Also Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, Medieval, Post Medieval & Undated records.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <S1> Excavation archive: Suffolk County Council Archaeologcial Service. 1989. Staunch Meadow, Brandon. Excavation archive.
  • <S2> Article in serial: Martin, E.A., Plouviez, J. & Ross, H.. 1984. Archaeology in Suffolk 1983. XXXV (4).
  • <S3> Article in serial: Martin, E.A., Plouviez, J. & Feldman, H.. 1986. Archaeology in Suffolk 1985. XXXVI (2).
  • <S4> Article in serial: Martin, E.A., Pendleton, C. & Plouviez, J.. 1989. Archaeology in Suffolk 1988. XXXVII (1).
  • <S5> Monograph: Tester, A., Anderson, S., Riddler, I. and Carr, R.. 2014. Staunch Meadow, Brandon, Suffolk. A High Status Middle Saxon Settlement on the Fen Edge.
  • <S6> Bibliographic reference: Billington, L, P.. 2016. Lithic Scatters and Landscape Occupation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: A Case Study from Eastern England.. P 168.

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Mar 31 2023 12:20PM

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