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| HHER Number: | 6511 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | MESOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC & BRONZE AGE WORKED FLINTS, WHEATHAMPSTEAD BY-PASS, MARFORD |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Mesolithic to Later Bronze Age - 8500 BC to 801 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)
Protected Status
- SHINE: Iron Age Occupation site, Wheathampstead
Full description
Worked flints of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age date were collected from ploughsoil on the line of the proposed by-pass south of the river Lea at Marford Farm in 1973 <1> [66]. A Mesolithic flake [43] was found on the river bank at the ford at TL 1850 1405 in 1975 <1>. Mesolithic flints were also recovered from the late Iron Age ditches [61] excavated on the line of the by-pass north of the river in 1977, at TL 1852 1418 <1>.
<2> Saunders, C, & Havercroft, A B, 1980-2, Excavations on the line of the Wheathampstead by-pass 1974 and 1977; Herts Archaeology 8, 11-31, - p11 (Article in serial). SHT4662.
<3> Verulamium Museum PRN, 061, 043, 066 (Index). SHT4663.
Sources and further reading
| <2> | Article in serial: Saunders, C, & Havercroft, A B. 1980-2. Excavations on the line of the Wheathampstead by-pass 1974 and 1977; Herts Archaeology 8, 11-31. - p11. |
| <3> | Index: Verulamium Museum PRN. 061, 043, 066. |
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