NHER 32758 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds scatter, Breck Farm

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Summary

A watching brief during development of the water service in the Holt area identified a dense scatter of recovered prehistoric burnt flints. There were no archaeological features. It is interpreted that the small number of medieval objects and lack of features found suggests there is no medieval activity in this area.

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Map sheet	TG13NW
Civil Parish	BACONSTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1997. Watching Brief.
Observation of water pipe line.
Very dense scatter of burnt flints identified immediately south of the Baconsthorpe Castle access road.
Other finds recovered included post-medieval pottery, tiles and lead waste.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.458).
E.Rose (NLA), 8 May 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015 and 27 April 2019.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF56553 Unpublished Contractor Report: Forrest, K. 1997. Results of Watching Brief at Baconsthorpe, on the Holt Zone Project Water Pipeline. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 234.
<S2> SNF86456 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1998. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1997. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt I pp 193-210. p 193.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (5)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
VESSEL (Undated)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)