Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34000 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Pot boilers, flints and Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and metal detecting in 1997 in advance of the Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline construction recovered pot boilers, flints, as well as Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4034 1992 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41NW |
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| Parish: | POTTER HEIGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January-April 1997. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey along route of Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline (Field/Location RDX 21.1).
Three pot boilers, a scraper, two retouched flint flakes, a struck flint fragment and spall were recovered along with a sherd of Roman pottery and six sherds each of medieval and post medieval pottery. A small concentration of unglazed pottery recorded at the southeast end of the field may be a continuation of the scatter of medieval and post medieval material in the adjacent field (RDX 21.2/NHER 34001).
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 to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (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)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. and Crowson, A. 2004. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design for Archaeological Excavations and Watching Brief on the Bacton to Great Yarmouth Gas Pipeline, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 924. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Chance to look at past. 31 May. |
| --- | 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 21.1. |
Related records
| 43790 | Related to: Cropmarks of ditches of unknown but possibly Roman date (Monument) |
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