NHER 60746 (Find Spot record) - Post-medieval clay tobacco pipe fragments

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Summary

A fieldwalking and metal-detecting survey undertaken 2002 along the route of a new sewerage pipeline recovered several post-medieval clay tobacco pipe fragments. A subsequent geophysical survey of this section of the pipeline route identified no potentially archaeologically significant anomalies.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF50NW
Civil Parish EMNETH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

June 2002. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Upwell and Outwell sewerage pipeline (Field 3).
3 post-medieval clay tobacco pipe fragments.
See report (S1) for further details.
Documentary material associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2025.170).
P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2015. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 31 August 2025.

July 2002. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetic susceptibility survey on proposed route of Upwell and Outwell sewerage pipeline (Segment A).
Little in the way of evidence for archaeologically significant remains, although this was apparently at least in part due to the unfavourable conditions in which the survey was conducted.
See report (S2) for further details.
Previously recorded under NHER 37156.
P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2015.

  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Warsop, P. 2002. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation by Field Survey on the route of a sewerage pipeline, Upwell and Outwell. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 703.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Wardill, R. 2002. Outwell and Upwell Sewerage Pipeline, Norfolk. Phase 1. Geophysical Survey Report. Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit.
  • TOBACCO PIPE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 31 2025 11:51AM

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