Record Details
NHER Number: | 37631 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Multi-period features and finds on the Bacton to King's Lynn Transco Pipeline |
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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 |
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Map Sheet: | TG23SE |
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Parish: | NORTH WALSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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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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