Neolithic and Early Bronze Age worked flints, south of River Stour (EHER 7359)

Fieldwalking surveys in 1983-1985 revealed a collection of worked flints beside the River Stour in an area of cropmarks (see EHER 7027 and EHER 7048). The vast majority of this worked flint dates from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.

1983-4 and 1984-5. Fieldwalking surveys. Worked flint found during fieldwalking of site of cropmark complex (see EHER 7027 and EHER 7048) in 1983/4 and 1984/5. Finds included one polished axe fragment and one pick. The vast amount of the material is late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in date. The cropmarks include a complex of ring ditches, suggesting a ploughed-out barrow cemetery. A concentric ring ditch has a causeway, hinting at a henge-like monument. <1> <2> A few Mesolithic flints were found at the same time and are recorded separately (see EHER 7358).