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Report on a Fieldwalking and Metal Detector Survey at Decoy Farm, Hockwold cum Wilton |
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NAU Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
The fieldwork area consisted of twelve hectares of arable land beside the River Great Ouse in the parish of Hockwold cum Wilton. The site lay on the southern tip of a large sandhill on the edge of the black peat fen; such sandhills have been a focus of human activity since the Mesolithic period and are rich in prehistoric flint, stone and copper alloy artefacts. A fieldwalking and metal detector survey of the site produced flint tools of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age date; Bronze age, Saxon and Medieval pottery and a cast copper alloy axe of the early Bronze Age were found. Excavation showed no evidence for surviving prehistoric features |
Author: |
S Percival
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Publisher: |
NAU Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
1997
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Locations: |
Site: |
Plantation Farm, Shippea Hill, Ely, Cambs. |
Parish: |
LITTLEPORT |
District: |
East Cambridgeshire |
County: |
Cambridgeshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 565050, 286580 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
norfolka1-41030 |
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Report: 254 |
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Note: |
A4, monograph
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Created Date: |
23 Nov 2016 |