NHER 13513 (Monument record) - Womack Water

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Summary

A now flooded medieval peat cutting.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG31NE
Civil Parish LUDHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Medieval peat working.
See (S1).

September 2008-September 2011. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 6). These works include the excavation of a new soke dyke along the eastern side of the channel connecting Womack Water to the River Thurne.
No archaeologically significant features or deposits were exposed. As elsewhere a sequence of dark grey and brownish orange clayey silts were exposed, sealed by a thin topsoil. Close to Womack Water peat was visible beneath the clayey silts.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 February 2018.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Lambert, J.M. & Jennings, J.N.. 1960. The Making of the Broads: A Reconsideration of their Origin in the Light of New Evidence..
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 2016. Womack Water to Hickling Broad, Compartment 6, Broadland Flood Alleviation Project. Monitoring of Works under Archaeological Supervision and Control. Heather Wallis. 175.

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Record last edited

Feb 7 2018 3:45PM

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