Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33967 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flints, medieval tile and post medieval coin, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1997 during the laying of a gas pipe recovered prehistoric flint flakes and burnt flints. Also found was a piece of medieval roof tile and a post medieval copper alloy coin.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3610 3026 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG33SE |
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| Parish: | EAST RUSTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January-April 1997. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline (Field/Location RDX 9.2)
Two pot boilers, two prehistoric flint flakes, a medieval tile were recovered, and a post medieval copper alloy coin were recovered.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.55 and NWHCM : 2017.395).
E. Rose (NLA) November 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1997. Bacton to Great Yarmouth Power Station Pipeline Archaeological Fieldwalking Survey. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 262. RDX 9.2. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Chance to look at past. 31 May. |
Related records - none
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