NHER 40369 (Monument record) - Undated grave, ditches and pit and medieval to post-medieval finds

May 2004. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site. From Context 1.
No archaeologicalfeatures were identified.
Finds were limited to three fragments of post-medieval ceramic building material.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2006.618).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 25 May 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2019.

March 2015. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The eight trenches excavated revealed a number of archaeologically significant features, including a grave, ditches and pits. Apart from two presumably residual prehistoric flints flakes no finds were recovered from these features and as a result few could be dated. The grave was partially exposed in the south-westernmost trench and was identified when the articulated bones of a hand were exposed during the removal of the subsoil layer. This feature was not excavated and cannot therefore be closely dated. It did however appear that the burial was probably aligned east-to-west and although it was most likely of some antiquity it was noted that the grave could be clearly seen to cut through the subsoil layer.
The five ditches identified were probably associated with former field boundaries and were predominantly aligned north-to-south and east-to-west, suggesting that most may be have been related to a single phase of land division. One possible exception is an east-to-west aligned ditch that appears to correspond with a boundary visible on an aerial photograph taken in 1946. The pits were mostly fairly shallow with sloping sides and unremarkable fills. It is suggested that they may have been clay extraction pits. The one notable exception was a substantial sub-rectangular pit at the northern edge of the site that was clearly of recent date, its fill containing plastic waste and other modern debris.
Metal-detecting during this work recovered a small assemblage of unstratified metal objects including a medieval silver coin, medieval/post-medieval lead weights and post-medieval coins, buckles, thimbles and a lead musket ball.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.303).
P. Watkins (HES), 31 January 2018. Amended 27 May 2019.