NHER 11521 (Monument record) - Undated pits, well, wall and multi-period finds, Canons' Close

1976. Found in service trench.
A number of features are cut into the gravel, including five pits up to 2m wide and a well constructed with chalk blocks. Pottery from the spoil heap included Thetford ware and an early medieval pottery sherd.
1 pottery sherd later reidentified as Ipswich ware by C. Dallas.
P. Wade-Martins (NAU).

(S1) notes that the well was 11 feet deep. Massive flint and chalk foundations. Stone mortar found.

1979. From area mostly east of ruins.
Thetford ware pottery sherds including 5 rims.
Grimston ware.
Animal and human bones.
J. Hassall, January 1980.

1976-1979. Finds from building site.
2 ?Roman pottery sherds.
1 tessera.
1 Ipswich ware sherds.
Around 740 Thetford ware sherds.
106 St Neots ware sherds.
11 Stamford ware sherds.
Around 80 early medieval sherds.
57 medieval coarse ware sherds.
8 medieval tile fragments.
26 post medieval sherds.
Human bone.
Worked flint.
Miscellaneous ironwork.
Finds in Norwich Castle Museum.
C. Dallas (NAU), December 1985.

Before April 1987. From south-east area of estate, between ruins and A11, presumably from disturbed ground.
Late Saxon metalwork including a brooch, an openwork fitting and a coin of Harthacnut (1040-1042).
See (S2, S4 and S5) in the Illustration Library.
A. Rogerson (NAU), April 1987.

June 1987. Visit during topsoil stripping, context 2.
Flint cobbled surface, approximately 4m wide, aligned approximately east-west. The east end of this feature was outside of the stripped area and the west end was cut by a north-south chalk wall, perhaps a late medieval or post medieval structure. On or in the surface of the cobbled road, three horseshoe fragments were noted.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 25 September 1987.

How does this cobbled surface relate to the Late Saxon road discovered immediately to the south (NHER 5865)?
A. Cattermole (NLA), 21 August 2008.

July 1987. Metal detecting.
Bronze ring, undatable but possibly Late Saxon.
J. Plouviez (SAU).

1988. Metal detecting and fieldwalking, perhaps impinging on NHER 5749.
Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval metalwork, as well as Thetford ware, medieval and post medieval sherds.
See full details, site plans and records in file.
See photographs (S3).
E. Rose (NAU) 13 December 1990.

1988. Metal detecting on eastern part of site during building works.
Middle Saxon pin.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 29 April 1989.

See (S6) for human bone probably all from this site.
E. Rose (NAU), 30 November 1990.