NHER 37647 (Monument record) - Early Saxon occupation evidence and post medieval features

January 2003. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site. Contexts 1-54 used.
This work dentified an earlier course of Well Creek containing deposits from which Early Saxon pottery and a fragment of Early Saxon bone comb were retrieved. An environmental sample from the Early Saxon layer recovered domestic hearth waste including charred cereals, egg shell, fish bone and crustacean fragments.
Post-medieval pits, evidence of post medieval dumping and remians of a post medieval brick structure were also identified.
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 : 2006.613).
J. Allen (NLA), 15 October 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 May 2015 and 5 May 2019.