NHER 25456 (Monument record) - Multi-period pot from the garden of Plot 3, Burgh Lane

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Summary

Pieces of Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pot were found. Reports of a number of 'grave-like' features in the garden were tested during an archaeological evaluation but no archaeological features were identified.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG01SE
Civil Parish MATTISHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1989, at various times. Found while gardening, on bare soil in garden. (Context 1).
One body sherd probably Thetford-type.
One medieval rim (?bowl) and one unglazed bodysherd.
Three probable glazed Grimston.
Three glazed Grimston.
One base late medieval/transitional ware.
One post medieval stoneware.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 7 September 1989.

Informant state that firm of well-diggers carried out some type of resistivity survey of the garden around this findspot prior to sinking a new well, and reported a number of grave-like features. Houseowner stated that he had encountered similar features in digging but 'an unusual distance apart' and he had never dug into them.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 February 1992.

14 July 1999. Trial Trench.
Evaluation in advance of residential development.
Revealed only one feature, of indeterminate origin - possibly natural.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.274).
E. Rose (NLA), 6 September 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 April 2019.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Hutcheson, A. R. 1999. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Plot 3, Burgh Lane, Mattishall. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 425.
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 15 2019 10:33PM

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