NHER 39596 (Monument record) - Post-medieval deposits and multi-period finds at West Road

August 2003. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site. From context 1.
No evidence of shoreline structures was revealed. A sequence of dumped deposits sealing the natural probably relate to episodes of ground raising from the 18th century to the present day.
Earlier finds recovered included a ?Late prehistoric pottery sherd and small numbers of redeposited Roman pottery sherds and ceramic building material fragments.
Estuarine clays and Broadland peats were recorded during the 2003 evaluation. The contact between the Broadland Middle Peat and the estuarine clays was radiocarbon dated to between the 9th and 2nd centuries BC (cal 825 to 525 BC and 405 to 180 BC). This is earlier than work elsewhere has suggested (S1), although the erosion of the upper layers of the clays may have led to the early date.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2006.296).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 25 January 2005 and D. Robertson (NLA), 12 October 2005.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2015 and 5 May 2019.