NHER 1187 (Monument record) - Medieval floor surfaces and potentially post-medieval structural remains

Before June 1971. Field Observation.
Observation of sewer trenching (continued from site NHER 1188) in area of Context 1 (to west of original line of Broad Street):
All but a few small 'islands' of medieval floor levels removed by post medieval and modern disturbance. Sherds of Grimston Thetford-type storage jar and Stamford ware jug from lowest floor level. Above this sherds of Grimston, Yorkshire and Lyveden jugs with a ridge tile fragment.
From the spoilheaps a collection of 17th century red ware and slipware sherds.
See (S1) for further details, including illustrated pottery sherds.
Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2024.

1973. Stray Find.
Dug up by workmen:
15th- to 16th-century pottery skillet handle (coarse red fabric green lead glaze).
Donated to King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1973.131).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU). Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2024.

November 2017-September 2018. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of new retail units.
Initial ground reduction removed made-ground deposits and exposed numerous existing pile caps and ground beams associated with the demolished Vancouver Centre building. At test pit excavated at TF 6193 2006 demonstrated that these made-ground deposits lay directly on an apparently undisturbed humic silt. There was no trace of the cobbled surface noted at this location in 1971, which had been associated with the original line of Broad Street (recorded as NHER 1179).
Archaeologically-significant remains identified included part of what appeared to be a north-north-west to south-south-east aligned fragment of brick wall or foundation exposed in the north-west corner of the site. A potentially perpendicular brick wall or foundation was noted close to this location during the excavation of a drainage trench. Excavations for ground beams at the south-eastern edge of the site exposed a vaulted brick structure that extended south, beneath the present kerb and roadway beyond. Although it wasn’t possible to retrieve any brick samples from these various structures it is likely that they were associated with the post-medieval buildings that fronted onto this section of Broad Street (prior to its diversion in the 1960s).
No finds were recovered.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.165).
P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2024.