Icklingham Beck

Name of Researcher: Ian Gibson

Date of Survey: 13/11/2014

Can you see any of the features listed below?

If so, please count or estimate the number of each feature and record approximate dimensions

Feature type

Present

Number

Maximum length

Maximum width

Maximum depth/height

Pits

N

Depressions or hollows

Y

30 – 40 est

5m

5m

1m or less

Spoilbanks

Y

The whole area is a network of hollows and heaps

Spoilheaps

Y

1m or less

Trackways

Y

To the NE approaching from the E from Icknield Way

Worked flints

Y

A few examples

Discarded flints

Y

Ubiquitous

Other features

(please provide details, if possible)

Y

2 recent long trenches, possibly from sand extraction

50m approx

5m

2m

Mapping

Access

Were you able to access all obvious areas of flint mining?

If not, please mark on the map the areas you were not able to access.

Yes

Photography

Overall condition of the Site

(from A = excellent to F = poor)

C

Land use ( as many as appropriate)

Heath

Any additional observations or comments

This site is well documented and everything I observed fits with the existing documentation. The secondary site at TL 7760 7435 (the blue marker on the map) does not show any evidence of actual mines although much broken flint covers the area. I recorded this broken flint along the length of the Icknield Way from the point where the trackway leaves it in a NW direction to the main site of the mines, back towards Icklingham to a point at about TL 744739.

The worked flints were seen in the recent sand workings. The main area is entirely covered with a continuous sward.