Monument record IKL 081 - Icklingham Plains (BA)
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Summary
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TL 7395 7382 (50m by 50m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TL77SW |
| Civil Parish | ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Jet spacer bead, pottery, worked flint & fire cracked flints in "large black patch" exposed in rabbit workings & found by John King in June 1980. Spacer bead is decorated on one face by three concentric rows of dots in `waisted' or `hour glass' pattern. Four perforations on one side converge into three on the other. Good condition, apart from chip on one corner, when found, slightly crazed - see drawing.
Pottery: one sherd rusticated with finger-nail impressions & flint & grog fillers; one base sherd with grog filler and one vesicular body sherd. Flint: three scrapers, one scraper cum backed knife, 1 scraper cum knife, one knife, two utilized flakes and one ? axe blade fragment. Grid reference after (S1).
Note similar flintwork & pottery from IKL 052! - is above grid reference approximation?
Also IA pottery & daub.
Sources/Archives (3)
- <S1> SSF11299 (No record type): MIHLM, catalogue MIHLM 80.42 & 43, October 1980.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: copy (S1), drawing.
- <S2> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Archaeol in Suff, 1980, PSIA, 35, 1981, (1), 75.
Finds (5)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
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Record last edited
Nov 15 2007 4:52PM