NHER 16168 (Monument record) - Multi-period finds and features

The ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 49184.

6 March 1991. Specification / brief for this site issued by Norfolk Landscape Archaeology. This was the third brief to be prepared after the implementation in Norfolk of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16.
D. Gurney (HES), 12 May 2014.

1998. Desk-based Assessment.
Stage III archaeological assessment.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2015.

August to September 1999. Excavation.
Excavation of area of proposed A12 Hopton Roundabout due to presence of ring ditch known from aerial photographs (now recorded as NHER 49184). However this was not seen and must lay outside area to west. A small pit contained Early Saxon and Roman pottery. A series of large intercutting ?gravel quarry pits were undated (possibly medieval). A series of small ditches representing at least two phases of field boundaries were post medieval in date. At southern end of site a large pond was revealed by test excavation (although the infilling of the pond can be seen on aerial photographs of building of A12 in 1970s. (Aerial photographs reference TM 526999). Two larger ditches were also excavated, and probably both of post medieval date.
See full report (S2) in file. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3). See also press cuttings (S4) together with newsletter (S5) in file.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.570).
S. Bates (NAU), 12 November 1999 and E. Rose (NLA), 9 February 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2015 and 17 May 2019.