Monument record WSW 018 - West Stow Heath, West Stow, (Mesolithic-Neolithic)

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Summary

Neolithic arrowheads and Mesolithic implements all found on ground disturbed by motor-cycle scramble track.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 792 713 (157m by 71m)
Map sheet	TL77SE
Civil Parish	WEST STOW, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

LITHIC SCATTER (Star Carr Type Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 9000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full Description

1968: A finely worked leaf shaped arrowhead and tranchet derivative arrowheads. Also, mesolithic flakes, cores, microburins, geometric microliths. All found on ground disturbed by motor-cycle scramble track. Retained by finder (S1-S3).

Some material previously recorded under WSW 001, Billington and Jacobi regard this as a single scatter/site, (S2,S3)

Sources/Archives (4)

<S1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. (S1).
<S1> SSF59675 Finds Report: SAU. 1968. Finds Report WSW 018 (and formerly WSW 001).
<S2> SSF59354 Bibliographic reference: Billington, L, P.. 2016. Lithic Scatters and Landscape Occupation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: A Case Study from Eastern England.. M 1202.
<Ss3> SSF59353 Digital archive: Jacobi, R.. 2014. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Lithic Artefact (PaMELA) database. 11664, 11665.

Finds (9)

FSF11737: FLAKE (Star Carr Type Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 9000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF11738: BORER (Mesolithic - 9000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF11739: MICROBURIN (Mesolithic - 9000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF11741: MICROLITH (Younger Dryas to Late Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
FSF11742: BLADE (Mesolithic - 9000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF11743: LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF11744: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
FSF51394: OPPOSED PLATFORM BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 9000 BC to 4000 BC)
FSF51395: CORE (Star Carr Type Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 9000 BC to 2351 BC)