Record Details

NHER Number:33968
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint flake and post medieval copper alloy object, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1997 during the laying of a gas pipe recovered a prehistoric struck flint fragment and a post medieval copper alloy door knob back plate.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3614 3012
Map Sheet:TG33SE
Parish:EAST RUSTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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 9.3).
One struck flint fragment and a post medieval copper alloy door knob back plate was 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 (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • DOOR FITTING (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Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1997.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 9.3.
<S2>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Chance to look at past. 31 May.

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