Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33974 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flints and medieval and post medieval finds, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and metal detecting in 1997 during the laying of a gas pipeline recovered a prehistoric flint flake, a medieval lead weight, a post medieval spoon handle, and a post medieval pottery sherd.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3700 2859 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NE |
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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 11.0).
One retouched flint flake, a medieval lead line or net weight, a post medieval copper alloy spoon handle, and a post medieval pottery fragment 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
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPOON (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 | Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1997.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 11.0. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Chance to look at past. 31 May. |
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