NHER 33602 (Monument record) - Post-medieval and undated features

May 1998. Trial Trench.
Evaluation in advance of development.
The single trench excavated revealed a pit and a single post-hole, both of which were probably of late post medieval date.
No finds were recovered.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2008.60).
E. Rose (NLA) 2 October 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2019.

May-June 2019. Trial Trench.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The single trench excavated revealed a range of linear and discrete features that appear to have been of predominantly post-medieval date.
The linear features included two roughly parallel north-north-west to south-south-east aligned ditch-like features that were probably once associated with some form of land division or boundary. One was undated but the other produced a small assemblage of predominantly post-medieval finds, the latest of which was possible a floor brick of late 17th- to 19th-century date. Single sherds of presumably residual medieval and medieval/post-medieval pottery were also recovered. These ditch-like features appeared to cut several perpendicular, early east-north-east to west-south-west linear features. The date of these earlier remains was uncertain as they produced few finds. One was however truncated by a small post-hole that produced a fragment of medieval brick, at least raising the possibility that they represented traces of a medieval phase of activity. Another of these potentially early linear features was truncated by the robbed out remains of a similarly-aligned wall. Interestingly this wall appeared to turn to the north at the point where it coincided with one of the north-north-west to south-south-east aligned possible boundary features. Little of the wall survived, although it appeared to have been built of mortared flints and brick. It may well have been some form of boundary or garden wall. The traces of a possible cobbled surface were observed to the south.
The discrete features included a number of post-holes, most, if not all of which were probably associated with a relatively recent phase of activity, with several clearly truncating the linear features and a number producing find of later post-medieval date.
Samples taken from features of probable post-medieval date were found to contain small amounts of carbonised cereal grain along with small amount of other material indicative of domestic waste.
Other remains included two features of modern date and an undated probably pit that produced bones from two dogs.
Unstratified finds included single sherds of Late Saxon and medieval pottery.
See report (S2) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2019.238).
P. Watkins (HES), 24 August 2020.