Monument record MLI50721 - LATE NEOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE AGE FINDS, WEST OF SMITHFIELD FARM
Summary
LATE NEOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE AGE FINDS, WEST OF SMITHFIELD FARM
Type and Period (1)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
50721
A late Neolithic/early Bronze Age occupation site. The evidence for the prehistoric occupation includes a small polished greenstone celt, barbed and tanged flint arrowheads, thumb scrapers, pigmy flints, cores, flakes and hammerstones. In addition a stone axe was found at TA06860145. In 1963 the site was in a field, previously ploughed but then fallow. The farmer had a few worked flints from the field, found in recent years. Scunthorpe Museum retains a representative selection of the material. {1}
A late Neolithic/early Bronze Age occupation site. Finds include Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads. {1}{2}
A stone axe found on a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age site, at TA06860145. {1}{3}
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SLI2660 Index: OS CARD INDEX. NORTH KELSEY. TA 00 SE:3,1963, HARPER F R.
- <2> SLI3196 Index: SMR FILE. NORTH KELSEY. TA 00 SE:B.
- <3> SLI3196 Index: SMR FILE. NORTH KELSEY. TA 00 SE:Q -.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred TA 0689 0139 (223m by 131m) Centre |
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Civil Parish | NORTH KELSEY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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