| Abstract: |
In September 2008, Archaeological Solutions Ltd conducted a detailed fieldwalking and metal detector archaeological survey on land at Kennett Hall Farm, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (NGR TL 6905 6875). The field walking recovered pottery (11), struck flint (53), burnt flint (25), animal bone (4), plough fragments, miscellaneous metal fragments, glass sherds, plastic items, and gun cartridges. It recovered a total of 11 sherds (111g) of pottery including a single prehistoric sherd (6g), three Roman sherds (11g) and seven post-medieval sherds (94g). The field walking also recovered a total of 53 fragments (280g) of struck flint that form a limited, but seemingly homogenous, group derived from locally-sourced, high quality flint. The group is characterised by the presence of relatively small blades, blade-like tertiary and uncorticated flakes, and side scrapers formed on blade-like flakes that appear to indicate lithic technology associated with the early Neolithic. The limited core technology evident in the group also supports this chronology, however, the low quantity and methodology of recovery may limit any definite conclusions. With such sparse finds of Roman pottery (3) it would be unwise to identify a `distribution pattern' and the pottery may be associated with manuring. Nonetheless two sherds were found in close proximity (C25G and C25O). The struck flint was very sparsely distributed with only grid squares B2V, B11Y, B12L, B21Y, 95Y and 96U containing 2 fragments of struck flint each, while the remaining 40 grid squares containing struck flint accounted for only a single fragment per square. |
