NHER 12834 (Monument record) - Probable Iron Age defended settlement and multi-period finds

Cropmark of ring ditch.
Located by E. Rose (NAU), 14 September 1977.

(S1) shows wind mill on approximately this site.
The mill was variously known as Tottington Mill, Denmark Green Mill and Cock Street Green Mill throughout its life; it was a post mill demolished in 1883. Information from [1].
E. Rose (NAU), 23 March 1982.

The mill probably did not stand on the ring ditch but just to its south where there is a rise.
A. Lawson (NAU), 23 March 1982.

December 1981. Partial excavation of circular cropmark in advance of road construction.
Ring ditch about 28m in diameter. Mechanical trenches cut through ditch, and interior stripped. Broad shallow ditch 6m wide 90cm deep, cut into gravel.
Base contained dark band of sand contained pottery (S6, S7 and S8) and flint tools.
Date of pot within Iron Age yet to be assessed.
Probably defended settlement or hut platform, probably 6th century BC.
See file for further details. Press cutting (S2) in file.
A. Lawson (NAU), 17 August 1982.

July-August 2001. Excavation.
Further excavation examined a post-medieval ditch, Neolithic pit with flints and pottery, a Bronze Age inverted collared urn with cremated bone, a Beaker hearth and the ring ditch. The upper fill of the last contained Roman pottery, coins and a brooch.
See report (S3) for further details. The results of this work are summarised in (S4).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2013.76).
D. Gurney (NLA), 5 March 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2019.

2002. Excavation.
A west extension of the 2001 excavation area failed to establish any source for the Roman pottery found in the upper silting of the west side of the ring-ditch. Further sectioning of the ring-ditch confirmed the apparently deliberate infilling of the lower half of the ditch with a pale greyish-white sandy gravel shortly after construction.
The results of this work are summarised in (S5).
D. Holburn (HES), 14 October 2011.