NHER 35776 (Monument record) - Multi-period finds/features from A11 Roudham to Attleborough Improvement Scheme

November-December 2000. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of A11 Roudham to Attleborough Improvement Scheme Stone Cross Bridge site (Trenches 1-6; Contexts 1-104).
Revealed Bronze Age postholes, pits and linears, a Late Iron Age/Roman field system and post-medieval ditches.
Finds include Iron Age coins and Roman pottery.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.445).
D. Gurney (NLA) 29 January 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 May 2019.

May-June 2001. Metal-detecting Survey.
A11 improvement scheme.
Finds from this area included a Romano-British brooch with a pin and catch plate measuring 29mm long and 23mm wide; an early medieval coin; a copper medieval coin; ?post-medieval lead weight, ?bracelet, elaborately decorated copper alloy pin, copper coin, copper alloy stud and copper alloy donut-shaped buckle/strap with flattened top and bottom measuring c. 30mm diameter and 15mm high.
See reports (S3) and (S4) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 24 March 2010.

July-August 2001 and October-November 2001. Excavation.
Excavation of two areas at A11 Roudham to Attleborough Improvement Scheme Stone Cross Bridge site.
Area 2 (from context 200):
A system of Roman ditches was revealed, with pits and post-holes. One ditch had a corn-drier constructed over it, and a pit within a small square ditched enclosure that contained Roman glass, iron timber nails (with minerised wood still adhering) and a palaeolithic hand-axe. The combination of artefacts from this feature suggest it may have been a robbed or otherwise disturbed cremation burial.
Area 1.
Very few features were identified, apart from some undated post-holes, tree holes, two ditches and modern land drains.
See assessment report (S5) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S6).
Final publication awaited.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.445).
J. Allen (NLA) 1 August 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 April 2015 and 27 May 2019.

The palaeolithic handaxe has been mislaid, and it cannot currently be located. Unfortunately this object was lost before it could be seen by a specialist and a printout of a digital photograph (S7) is the only surviving image.
D. Gurney (NLA) 6 April 2006.