Monument record MNL 013 - Judes Ferry, West Row, Mildenhall, (Mesolithic)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 6776 7484 (94m by 71m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL67SE |
Civil Parish | MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
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Type and Period (1)
Full Description
1967: Scatter of patinated flint artefacts, including tranchet axe and flakes, small blades and scrapers. Incomplete findspot given for tranchet axe in (S1) and (S2). Revised 1987 by Colin Pendleton.
Also crude oblique type arrowhead from(possibly Mesolithic)(S3).
See also Post Medieval and MNL 221, MNL 501.
All above finds probably redeposited - see (S5).
1994: excavation of evaluation trench revealed extremely deep peat deposits of former river channel (including worked wood, not mentioned in S4) overlain by a layer of chalky soil including early 19th century platform gunflint production waste as well as mesolithic flintwork [this may have come from the large chalk extraction pit just to the north] (S4).
For Aurochs skull with cut marks dredged from river on line of proposed new bridge in July 1998 see MNL 501 (S5).
Sources/Archives (6)
- <S1> SSF55956 Article in serial: Owles, E. & Smedley, N.. Archaeology in Suffolk, 1967.
- <S2> SSF3399 Bibliographic reference: CBA. 1967. Group 7 Bulletin, 14, 1967. CBA, Group 7 Bulletin, 14, 1967, 13.
- <S3> SSF59582 Source Unchecked: Pendleton C. 1976. Artefact records & descriptions. Pendleton C, artefact records & descriptions, 1965 entries.
- <S4> SSF15749 Source Unchecked: Pendleton C. 1965. Artefact records & descriptions. Pendleton C, artefact records & descriptions, 1976 entries.
- <S5> 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 1094.
- <S6> SSF59353 Digital archive: Jacobi, R.. 2014. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Lithic Artefact (PaMELA) database. 11477.
Finds (4)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Apr 27 2021 11:25AM