NHER 38191 (Monument record) - Poorly-dated ditches, gullies and possible pits

March 2002. Desk-based Assessment.
Assessment of proposed development area comprising this site and nearby NHER 37141.
See report (S1) for further details.
J. Allen (NLA), 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2015.

April 2002. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of proposed development area.
Not much evidence of any archaeologically significant features.
See report (S2) for further details.
J. Allen (NLA) 12 June 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2015.

May-June 2002. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development area (Trenches 5-14).
These trenches revealed a number of archaeologically significant features, although relatively few datable finds were recovered. Several ditches and gullies were excavated, these most likely representing several phases of activity. Those that produced dating evidence included a quite substantial ditch from which a sherd of prehistoric (possibly Bronze Age) pottery was recovered and a pair of intersecting narrow gullies that contained a dump of animal bone and a single medieval pottery sherd. Other linear features also produced a small number of medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds.
A number of discrete features were also investigated, although most were found to be natural in origin. The more convincing examples included several pits or ditch termini, one of which produced a Roman pottery sherd.
See report (S3) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S4).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.184).
These trenches were previously recorded under NHER 37141 (which now only details the evidence from trenches 1-4).
P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2015. Amended 27 April 2019.