Monument record 955/1/1 - Mesolithic/Neolithic Features

A tree throw recorded close to the eastern limit of excavation in Area 2 contained Mesolithic/Neolithic flint, including a simple scraper. Truncating the centre of the throw was a smaller concave pit which contained a small abraded sherd of undiagnostic prehistoric pottery along with 13 pieces of worked flint, including several blades dating to the Mesolithic or early Neolithic.

{1} Evidence of Mesolithic/Neolithic activity is extremely sparse with just two features dated to this period.
A tree throw recorded close to the eastern limit of excavation in Area 2 contained Mesolithic/Neolithic flint, including a simple scraper. Truncating the centre of the throw was a smaller concave pit which contained a small abraded sherd of undiagnostic prehistoric pottery along with 13 pieces of worked flint, including several blades dating to the Mesolithic or early Neolithic. Recovery of debitage and two refitting pieces suggest flint working in the immediate vicinity, if not within the original tree hollow, the fragments being residually deposited within the later cut.
South of the tree throw, within a group of pits recorded at the south-east corner of Area 2, a sub-circular pit measuring 1.90m x 0.64m x 0.33m deep contained naturally deposited silts but also a leaf-shaped arrowhead diagnostic of early Neolithic industries.

<1> Hall R., 2008, Excavations at Priors Hall, Northamptonshire, 2006: An Iron Age and Romano-British Ironworking Complex, p.8 (checked) (Report). SNN106586.

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