Record Details

NHER Number:33989
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting during pipe-laying works in 1997 recovered prehistoric pot boilers, a Roman cauldron fragment, pieces of medieval and post medieval pottery, and post medieval metal items including a shoe buckle, a spoon handle, and a coin.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 3920 2401
Map Sheet:TG32SE
Parish:SUTTON, 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 15.2).
Eight pot boilers and a Romano British cauldron suspension loop were recovered along with medieval to post medieval pottery sherds and post medieval metal items including a coin, an 18th cnetury shoe bicklefragmenr, a spoon handle, and a lead knob.
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 (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • CAULDRON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1800 AD)
  • COIN (19th Century - 1856 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Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1997.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 15.2.

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