Accession No
TEMP.01746.6
Description
Two sherds and two pieces of flint. One sherd with speckled brown surface and one with blue floral decoration; two pieces of possibly worked flint.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Newmarket Bypass
Period
?Mesolithic ?Neolithic Medieval Post Medieval
Source
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
TEMP.01746.6; NM72 10a [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Flint; Pottery; Ceramic
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found, unaccessioned, in a box marked ‘Cambridge Western Bypass M11 Field-Walking Finds’, in a larger box marked ‘Cambridge M11/Newmarket Bypass Fieldwalking Finds’. The Cambridge Western Bypass M11 material was assigned the TEMP number TEMP.01745 and the Newmarket Bypass material was assigned TEMP.01746, TEMP.01751 and TEMP.01752. The Newmarket Bypass fieldwalking material was likely to have been collected in 1972 and 1973, according to the site codes; it is not currently known when it entered the museum.
Event Date 18/5/2022
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Two sherds and two pieces of flint. One sherd with speckled brown surface and one with blue floral decoration; two pieces of possibly worked flint.
Event Date 18/5/2022
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:296559
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