NHER 33997 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint and medieval to post medieval pottery, Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline project

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Summary

An NAU watching brief that carried out fieldwalking and metal detecting in advance of the Bacton to Great Yarmouth gas pipeline recovered prehistoric flints including a blade and a flake and medieval and post medieval pottery at this site.

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Map sheet	TG32SE
Civil Parish	CATFIELD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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January-April 1997. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Bacton to Great Yarmouth pipeline (Field/Location RDX 18.2).
A struck flint fragment, a retouched flake, and a blade were recovered along with one medieval pottery and 9 post medieval sherds.
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.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF64324 Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1997. Bacton to Great Yarmouth Power Station Pipeline Archaeological Fieldwalking Survey. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 262. RDX 18.2.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (5)

BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 28 2023 1:58PM