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parish catalogue - bacton

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place names

Domesday Book entry: Baketuna.1

Name origin: Anglo-Saxon, Baccatun. An enclosed farm or settlement, -ton, belonging to a person named Bacca.2,7

Other place names: Keswick, "farm where cheese is made", Anglo-Saxon cese plus wic7; Rudram's Gap, uncatalogued origin for "Rudram"; Broomholm, probably "river meadow where broom grows", extrapolating from other entries7; Butt Hill, uncatalogued origin for "Butt"; Clay Lane Farm; Edingthorpe, from female personal name "Eadgyth's outlying farm or settlement"7, the name indicating confusion with female personal name Eadgifu3. Eadgyth is the Anglo-Saxon original name, modern Edith4; Pollard Street, see AN-4 below; Forster Farm.

Named water features: none.

other features of interest

none catalogued.

sites

stone age sites

none catalogued.

bronze age sites

none catalogued.

iron age sites

none catalogued.

roman and romano-british sites

rating four out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-4. Excavation Dates: none catalogued. Grid Reference: TG335327. Status: Unverified. Details: Settlement name ending in "Street" suggests nearby Roman road5,6,7. May form part of AN-5 Roman road "Crossdale Street" (my name), or a secondary road leading to the coast.

anglo-saxon sites

none catalogued.

anglo-viking sites

none catalogued.

finds

finds of uncatalogued age

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-64. Excavation Dates: 1939. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Undated prehistoric flint arrowhead with one tang. Source: NWHCM8 : 1939.78 : A

stone age finds

none catalogued.

mesolithic finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-73. Excavation Dates: 1961. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Mesolithic chipped flint axehead. Source: NWHCM8 : 1961.136 : A

neolithic finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-63. Excavation Dates: 1933. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic flint barbed and tanged arrowhead. Source: NWHCM8 : 1933.134 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-65. Excavation Dates: 1948. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic broken and partly rebored stone axe hammer and flint implements. Source: NWHCM8 : 1948.68 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-68. Excavation Dates: 1950. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic pottery and flint implements. Source: NWHCM8 : 1952.177 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-71. Excavation Dates: 1951. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Bacton beach). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic polished flint axehead tip. Source: NWHCM8 : 1959.69 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-72. Excavation Dates: 1960. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic decorated pottery sherds, Mortlake type. Source: NWHCM8 : 1960.69 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-74. Excavation Dates: 1964. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic flint. Source: NWHCM8 : 1964.429 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-78. Excavation Dates: 1973. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic polished flint axe with faceted sides. Source: NWHCM8 : 1973.424 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-79. Excavation Dates: uncatalogued. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Bacton Wood Mill, Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic chipped flint axe. Source: NWHCM8 : 1986.251(1) : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-80. Excavation Dates: uncatalogued. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Bacton Wood Mill, Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic flint hollow scraper. Source: NWHCM8 : 1986.251(2) : A

bronze age finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-62. Excavation Dates: 1932. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age bronze, faceted axe. Source: NWHCM8 : 1932.30 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-66. Excavation Dates: 1948. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age pottery sherds. Source: NWHCM8 : 1948.68 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-67. Excavation Dates: 1950. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age overhanging cinerary urn, urn fragment and cremated human bones. Source: NWHCM8 : 1950.32 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-69. Excavation Dates: 1950. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age pottery and flint implements. Source: NWHCM8 : 1952.177 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-70. Excavation Dates: 1956. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age pottery and flint flakes. Source: NWHCM8 : 1956.136 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-75. Excavation Dates: 1964. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age material. Source: NWHCM8 : 1964.429 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-76. Excavation Dates: 1965. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age flint scrapers, pottery sherds and pot boilers. Source: NWHCM8 : 1965.200 : A

iron age finds

none catalogued.

roman and romano-british finds

none catalogued.

anglo-saxon finds

none catalogued.

anglo-viking finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-77. Excavation Dates: 1971. Grid Reference: uncatalogued (Edingthorpe). Status: Verified. Details: Anglo-Viking rim sherd. Source: NWHCM8 : 1971.401 : A

unanswered questions

Can you help answer any of the questions below, and including citations of primary or secondary sources? If so, please contact me.
  1. Do you know of any other finds or sites predating the Norman period in Bacton parish?

primary sources

none catalogued.

secondary sources

1Williams, Ann & Martin, G.H. ( eds.) (2002) Domesday Book, A Complete Translation. Penguin Classics.

2 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/php/detailpop.php?placeno=9166

3 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/php/detailpop.php?placeno=9671

5Allen, R.E. ( ed.) (1990) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 8th Edition. OUP.

6 http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/places.html

7Mills, A.D. ( ed.) (1991). Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names OUP.

8http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/

tertiary sources

4Anonymous (1988) Collins: First Names, A to Z Guide to Over 2000 Names. Parragon.

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