Mesolithic calcined, blade like and core flints, Furze Hill (EHER 7414)

Please read our guidance about the use of Essex Historic Environment Record data.

Summary

Topsoil stripping for the 1975 pipeline revealed a number of calcined flints and a scatter of blade-like flints and cores of Mesolithic aspect (TM 12083110 and TM 12093108).

Find a placename, postcode or grid reference

Map layers

Base layers

Opacity

Info

Record list

Tools

Location

Grid reference	Centred TM 1208 3109 (10m by 20m)
Civil Parish	MISTLEY, TENDRING, ESSEX

Type and Period

FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Description

Salvage recording, 1975 Topsoil stripping for the 1975 pipeline revealed a number of calcined flints (probably not pot-boilers but from liming of the field) and a scatter of blade-like flints and cores of Mesolithic aspect (TM 12083110 and TM 12093108). <1>

Finds

Sources

<1> SEX10280 Article in monograph: Barford, P.. 1976 ?. Unrecorded Discoveries in North-East Essex 1955-1976. East Anglian Archaeology. Forthcoming, typescript in SMR.

Related Events (1)

Archaeological Intervention: Chance find by unknown person, Furze Hill, Mistley, 1975 (EEX62645)

Other References

Old SMR Number: TM13-010

Comments

Do you have any questions or more information about this record? Please feel free to comment below with your name and email address. All comments are submitted to the website maintainers for moderation, and we aim to respond as soon as possible. Comments, questions and answers that may be helpful to other users will be retained and displayed along with the name you supply. The email address you supply will never be displayed or shared.