Prehistoric flint flakes, South of Whitehouse Farm, Mistley Heath (EHER 7439)

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Summary

Two conjoined enclosures at the south end of the field may be Neolithic. Fieldwalking has produced quantities of flint flakes but no pottery or other finds.

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Grid reference	TM 1305 3013 (point)
Civil Parish	BRADFIELD, TENDRING, ESSEX

Type and Period

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age - 1000000 BC to 701 BC)

Description

Fieldwalking, 1982 Two conjoined enclosures at the south end of the field may be Neolithic <1>. Fieldwalking has produced quantities of flint flakes but no pottery or other finds. A palstave has been found to the east of this site, see EHER 7438. <1> <2>

Finds

FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age - 1000000 BC to 701 BC)

Sources

<1> SEX75707 MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL: Oral information, correspondence (not archived), or staff comments. J Hedges, pers comm.
<2> SEX10280 Article in monograph: Barford, P.. 1976 ?. Unrecorded Discoveries in North-East Essex 1955-1976. East Anglian Archaeology. Forthcoming, typescript in SMR.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Part of: Bronze Age palstave, South of Whitehouse Farm, Mistley Heath (Find Spot) (EHER 7438)

Related Events (1)

Field Survey: Field survey by P. Barford, Mistley Heath, 1982 (EEX24098)

Other References

Old SMR Number: TM13-029

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