NHER 41470 (Monument record) - Earthwork bank and possible causeway

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Summary

A chalk surface, which may be part of an eroded causeway, and several timber posts which supported an earthwork bank, shown on 19th century maps, which formed part of the sea defences.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF84SW
Civil Parish BURNHAM NORTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

May-November 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Inter-tidal survey (Environmental Zone 8), Context 1082:
Over twenty five timber posts/planks and a chalk surface were found within a saltmarsh channel to the east of the modern sea bank. The chalk surface may have been an eroded causeway crossing the channel and the timbers were probably part of the internal structure of an earlier bank. A bank (NHER 26770) is shown crossing the site on maps from 1822 and 1825 (S1); the timbers could be part of this bank.
See assessment report (S2) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
J. Allen (NLA), 18 April 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.

  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Ringwood, I.. 2003. NSCS 3 - Norfolk and Suffolk Coastal Survey - Documentary Evidence - Norfolk.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Robertson, D., Crawley, P., Barker, A., and Whitmore, S. 2005. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1045.

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Record last edited

Jul 21 2019 6:13PM

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