Neolithic worked flints at Heath Place Farm, Orsett (EHER 1802)

Fieldwalking produced a varied assemblage of flint tools including blades, scrapers, cutters, arrowheads, cores and hammer stones.

Original HER entry merged with two NRHE data import. Three Neolithic arrowheads found to the East of a the cropmark of subrectangular enclosure (EHER 1801). <1> A leaf-shaped flint arrowhead was recovered by Mr R Bingley from the area of cropmarks, around 800m SW of the Orsett causewayed enclosure (EHER 1801). An illustration is provided by <2>. A Neolithic flint assemblage, including two other arrowheads is already known from the same area. The enclosure here is unparalleled by any known enclosure form in Essex, and in view of the flint assemblage may well be Neolithic. According to <3> The finds, A collection of some 88 Neolithic flint implements, had been made in 1974-1977, in the area to the West of Old House Wood centred at TQ 647800 near Heath Place Farm, on enclosures attached to Heath Place Farm. The main collecting area became centred on TQ 647800, separated from the Orsett causewayed enclosure by about 200yds and by the headwater brook of Mucking Creek. The tool types were mainly short blades and side-scrapers, with end and hollow scrapers, small cutters, an 'arrowhead of high craftsmanship', cores, and hammer stones or chips from hammer stones also in the assemblage. The 1978 finds included five scrapers and another high quality leaf arrowhead. <4> illustrates two leaf arrowheads found on a ploughed field surface around 800m SW of the Orsett causewayed enclosure at TQ 646797. <2> <3> <4> Finds are in Thurrock Museum. <5> Additional ref <6> Site Assessment = Accession numbers?