Monument record MLI60316 - Prehistoric Artefacts, Anwick Fen
Summary
Prehistoric artefacts found in the area of the Anwick Fen barrow cemetery.
Type and Period (2)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Late Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 7000 BC to 801 BC)
- SETTLEMENT ? (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Field walking, conducted in 1976 over the area of Anwick Fen barrow, led to the recovery of 1,362 artefacts, most of which were found on or around the barrows. The collection consisted of one very abraded pottery sherd; 10 pot-boilers; 2 flint hammerstone fragments; 63 flint cores; 1,180 flint flakes; 79 retouched and 27 possibly retouched pieces; and a flake from a polished stone tool, probably an axe, which appears to be Great Langdale tuff (group VI). The retouched pieces formed two main groups: a Mesolithic group consisting of 14 microliths and related forms; and a later Neolithic/early Bronze Age group consisting of a barbed and tanged arrowhead (see 60315), a stone axe flake, a leaf-shaped arrowhead (see 60315), 5 bifaces, 26 scrapers, 6 borers, 2 knives (see 60315), a fabricator, a chisel (see 60315), 2 shouldered blades, a denticulated flake, and the pottery sherd (see 60315). Much of the assemblage was undiagnostic, and it is suggested that although it may be from any period it could represent later Neolithic - Bronze Age settlement, although some of it may have been ploughed up from barrow deposits. {1}
Four microliths are recorded as being found at TF 133 497 by the Colonisation of Britain Project. {2}
Sources/Archives (2)
- <1> SLI678 Article in Serial: Peter Chowne and Frances Healy. 1983. ‘Artefacts from a Prehistoric Cemetery and Settlement in Anwick Fen, Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.18, pp.37-46.
- <2> SLI13825 Index: Wessex Archaeology. 2012. The Colonisation of Britain Project. 13468 and 13469.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 132 497 (414m by 414m) Estimated from sources |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | ANWICK, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Aug 17 2022 2:02PM
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