Neolithic settlement at Lion Point (EHER 81145)
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Summary
Neolithic settlement; pits containing pottery & flints. Type-site for "Rinyo-Clacton" pottery.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | TM 1478 1279 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | TENDRING, TENDRING, ESSEX |
Type and Period
Description
Information from
A Neolithic settlement site, being the classic grooved ware site, formerly "Rinyo Clactonian" (3). It occupies about 150 yards of the foreshore at Lion Point (now Jaywick Sands) at Clacton, Warren's Area 4.
He excavated twenty three "cooking holes" averaging 3 feet diameter and 18 inches deep. They contained black earth, charcoal, pot boilers, flint implements and pottery. The flint implements include scrapers, polished axe fragments, transverse arrowheads, knives and serrated flakes as well as many cores and waste flakes indicating flint working.
The pottery was all in the grooved ware tradition. Finds in the British Museum. (1-3)
Finds
- SHERD / VESSEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- SHERD / VESSEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- ARROWHEAD / AXEHEAD / KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- ARROWHEAD / AXEHEAD / KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- ARROWHEAD / AXEHEAD / KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- ARROWHEAD / AXEHEAD / KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
- POT BOILER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
Sources
- <1> SEX6151 Serial: Prehistoric Society. 1936. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 2. 2. p 180.
- <2> SEX16926 Serial: Sieveking, G.? (ed.). 1971. Prehistoric and Roman Studies. 35.
- <3> SEX76227 Article in serial: Wainwright, G. and Longworth, I. H.. 1971. Durrington Walls: Excavations 1966–1968. London: Society of Antiquaries of London. 29. pp. 226-8, 275.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Other References
- NRHE identifier: 387821