NHER 1247 (Monument record) - Medieval property boundary, cistern and finds and post medieval pottery, All Saints' Street

Before June 1971. Casual discovery.
Material recovered during building operations included sherds of Grimston Thetford-type storage jar, early Stamford ware, Grimston jug and cooking pot, Yorkshire jug, Lyveden jug and northwest French jug with 16th to 18th century earthenware, including one Dutch import ((S1) fig. 123, no. 286). No stoneware or tin-glazed earthenware was found.
See (S1) for further information.
A. Carter (KLAS).

Point at TF 6193 1957 extended slightly to take in 'Area C' of All Saints' Street excavations.
1963-1970 (at some time). Excavation.
Some of the earliest pottery found in King's Lynn came from the lowest levels of this site, at a depth of 3.4m (11.24 ft) OD, and included Grimston cooking pot, early medieval light grey ware, Stamford-type and Andenne pottery sherds. This was found close to a row of posts which were thought to be part of a property boundary, and a mortar floor which appeared to be of the same phase, dating from around the 11th to the 13th centuries.
The next phase of activity on the site, in the 13th to 14th centuries, was the construction of a large clay-lined water cistern measuring at least 2.5m (8.25 ft) by 2.4m (8 ft) with shallow, sloping sides. Finds associated with this phase of activity included decorated Grimston, Yorkshire and SW French pottery sherds, a Grimston curfew, a worked bone object with incised lines and a whetstone with a needle-sharpening groove.
The final phase of activity on this site dates from the 15th century when the area appears to have been used for dumping of rubbish and rubble.
See (S2) for further information.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 11 March 2019.