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| CHER Number: | 06388 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Neolithic settlement, Hallard's Fen, Burwell |
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Summary - not yet available
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 (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- AXE (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
R1, 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.
Sources and further reading
| R1 | Bibliographic reference: RCHM. 1972. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume II. North-East Cambridgeshire. 40 |
| R2 | Bibliographic reference: Fox, C.. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Map 1 |
| R3 | Excavation archive: Lethbridge, T. C.. Lethbridge excavation archive. |
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