Record Details

NHER Number:36205
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Post-medieval pottery and clay tobacco pipe

Summary

In 2001 single fragments of post-medieval pottery and clay tobacco pipe were recovered during the excavation of a cable trench. No archaeologically significant features or deposits were identified.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2879 2870
Map Sheet:TG22NE
Parish:NORTH WALSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

June-July 2001. Watching Brief.
Observation of trench dug for new electricity cable running between Bacton and North Walsham (Field 1).
No archaeologically significant features or deposits observed.
Unstratified finds recovered included:
1 post-medieval pottery sherd and 1 clay tobacco pipe fragment.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.442).
D. Gurney (NLA), 5 October 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 May 2015 and 27 May 2019.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOBACCO PIPE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. and Underdown, S. 2001. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the North Walsham to Bacton Cable Trench. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 612.
<S2>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2002. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 162-177. p 170.

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