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CHER Number:06388
Type of record:Monument
Name:Probable Neolithic settlement, Hallard's Fen, Burwell

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 570 675
Parish:Burwell, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • SETTLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds:

  • ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • AXE (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • AXE (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BURIN (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

1. Probable Neolithic and early Bronze Age settlement lies in Hallard's Fen ... at 5ft - 10ft above OD. Large numbers of flint and stone implements have been found on the fenland of the parish. Recent finds, whose location is more accurately recorded, show a concentration in Hallard's Fen indicating a settlement site. Quantities of flint cores, waste flakes, flint axes, scrapers, burins and leaf-shaped or barbed and tanged arrowheads have been found, as well as a number of polished stone axes.

4. There are no recognisable remains of this settlement in an area extensively dug for cuprolite in the 19th century (a). It is now all arable.


<1> RCHM, 1972, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume II. North-East Cambridgeshire, 40 (Bibliographic reference). SCB13360.

<2> Fox, C., 1923, The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, Map 1 (Bibliographic reference). SCB1232.

<3> Lethbridge, T. C., Lethbridge excavation archive (Excavation archive). SCB1720.

<4> Stevens, P.A., Field Investigator Comments, 19/5/81 (Verbal communication). SCB60592.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: RCHM. 1972. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume II. North-East Cambridgeshire. 40.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Fox, C.. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Map 1.
<3>Excavation archive: Lethbridge, T. C.. Lethbridge excavation archive.
<4>Verbal communication: Stevens, P.A.. Field Investigator Comments. 19/5/81.

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