Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33994 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Post medieval finds, Roman knife and flint flake, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project |
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Summary
A NAU watching brief including fieldwalking and metal detecting in advance of the Bacton to Great Yarmouth gas pipeline recovered two concentrations of post medieval finds including pottery and substantial amounts of brick and tile that may indicate demolished buildings.A prehistoric flint flake and an iron Roman knife or cleaver was also found at this site.
Subsequent metal-detecting at this location in 2023 recovered medieval coins and a number of post-medieval metal objects, including a token, dividers and a lead trade weight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 39 22 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32SE |
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| Parish: | CATFIELD, 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 17.3).
A flint flake and a Roman Iron knife or cleaver were recovered along with 6 post medieval pottery sherds and 29 fragments of post medieval ceramic building material. The post medieval remains were concentrated in two small clusters and included a substantial quantity of brick and tile, possibly indicating the presence of a former structure.
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.
September-October 2023. Metal-detecting. [1].
3 medieval coins.
1 post-medieval coin, dividers and a lead trade weight.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 November 2023 and 13 May 2024.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CLEAVER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- KNIFE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1247 AD to 1247 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1300 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1352 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DIVIDERS (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
- WEIGHT (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1667 AD to 1669 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 17.3. |
Related records - none
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