Record Details

NHER Number:37631
Type of record:Monument
Name:Multi-period features and finds on the Bacton to King's Lynn Transco Pipeline

Summary

Investigations between 2002 and 2003 during pipe laying works revealed Neolithic or Iron Age pits and a ditch, probable medieval field boundary ditches and medieval pits, a hearth and lines of post holes. Finds recovered included a Mesolithic and a Neolithic flint blade, together with fragments of Neolithic, Iron Age, Medieval and post medieval pottery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 265 321
Map Sheet:TG23SE
Parish:NORTH WALSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 2002 - January 2003. Geophysical and fieldwalking survey. Bacton to King's Lynn Transco pipeline. Construction section 47, plot number 34.
Geophysical survey identified a possible occupation site consisting of a cluster of pit-like anomalies and/or areas of burning associated with a particularly high susceptibility reading.

Fieldwalking recovered burnt flints, a worked flint; Roman medieval and post medieval pottery; medieval and post medieval building material; and post medieval bottle glass and a rumbler bell.
See (S1) and (S2).
J. Allen (NLA), 8 August 2007.

March - August 2003. Excavation. Bacton to King's Lynn Pipeline.
Excavation revealed Neolithic or Iron Age pits and a ditch.
A rectilinear pattern of possibly medieval ditches is likely to be the remains of a field system.
Medieval features include a narrow ditch associated with a large concentration of pits, a hearth, and two lines of post holes, and late medieval ditches and a number of large pits.
See (S3).
J. Allen (NLA), 25 August 2006.

Monument Types

  • OCCUPATION SITE (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • DITCH (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PIT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • PIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FIELD SYSTEM (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD?)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HEARTH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POST HOLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
  • CHARCOAL (Unknown date)
  • SAMPLE (Unknown date)
  • BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • CRESTED BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • DEBITAGE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 3000 BC to 401 BC)
  • NOTCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 3000 BC to 401 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • XFIRED CLAY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BOTTLE (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)
  • XFIRED CLAY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Pre-Construct Geophysics. 2003. Fluxgate Gradiometer and Magnetic Susceptibility Surveys: Bacton to King's Lynn Gas Pipeline. Pre-Construct Geophysics.
<S2>Unpublished Contractor Report: [Unknown]. 2003. Bacton to Kings Lynn Proposed Gas Pipeline. Archaeological Field Reconnaissance, Fieldwalking, Metal Detecting and Geophysical Survey. Network Archaeology. 184.
<S3>Unpublished Contractor Report: Network Archaeology. 2004. Bacton to King's Lynn Natural Gas Pipeline. Post-Excavation Assessment of Potential for Analysis and Updated Project Design. Network Archaeology. pp 72-74.

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