NHER 5687

Name of Researcher/s Kathy Gay and Sue Pennell

Date of Survey 4^th September and 15^th October 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

nil

Depressions or hollows

nil

Spoilbanks

nil

Spoilheaps

nil

Trackways

nil

Worked flints

nil

Discarded flints

Could be

Other features

(please provide details, if possible)

none

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)

F

Land use ( as many as appropriate)

Forestry Plantation

Any additional observations or comments

Despite two lengthy visits, we were unable to discern, with any certainty, any visible evidence of gun flint pits. There are some slight depressions between the south of Hereward Way and the railway line, however, where these are natural features or not, we are unable to say.

The FC plantation north of Hereward Way as been replanted during perhaps, the last twenty year. These trees are tightly planted with rows of old tree stumps at regular intervals amongst the new plantation. We were not able to see the slightest evidence of any pits. See photograph above.

Although there are flints strewn across much of this area, whether they are natural or the result of mining is impossible to say.