Monument record MNL 104 - Cook's Drove
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 6551 7711 (125m by 151m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL67NE |
Civil Parish | MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Finds scatter mainly of EBA date.
Found fieldwalking by Colin Pendleton between 1971 and 1976. Finds include various worked flints, e.g. a leaf shaped plano-convex knife, flint hammer stones, a triangular arrowhead from TL 6554 7717, a transverse arrowhead from TL 6554 7716, a barbed and tanged arrowhead from TL 6549 7710, a bone awl from TL 6553 7715 and a saddle quern (not collected) from TL 6561 7711. Also quantities of pottery including finely decorated beaker and collared urn sherds.
Within this spread a burnt flint patch was located centreing on TL 6557 7709 (S1).
Finds comparable to those from excavations at MNL 042 and MNL 165.
Sources/Archives (2)
- <S1> SSF15678 Unpublished document: Pendleton C F. 1987. Catalogue of finds and findspots,1965-1987, unpublished. Pendleton C, Records of finds & findspots, 1965-1987, unpublished.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: drawings of pottery (stolen Autumn 1981).
Finds (12)
- FSF2620: WORKED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2621: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2622: HAMMERSTONE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2623: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2624: TRIANGULAR ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2625: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2626: AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2627: QUERN (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2628: ANIMAL REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2629: POTTERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- FSF2630: POTTERY BEAKER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- FSF2631: POTTERY COLLARED URN (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
May 14 2020 11:21AM