NHER 44785 (Monument record) - Medieval materials, land adjacent to Long Acre

June 2006.Watching Brief.
Monitoring of excavation of footing trenches for new residential dwelling. Contexts 1-22.
Revealed a relatively modern subsoil which contained, in places, layers or rafts of redeposited chalk. Underlying these was a layer of medieval silt, which contained a small quantity of bone, mollusc shells and burnt material, a small refuse pit containing fish bones, and some pottery fragments of Grimston-type ware.
It is concluded that this area was close to the river tide-line during the medieval period.
To the south of this site there is evidence of medieval and/or post medieval settlement with the presence of built remains recorded in 1961. The presence of re-deposited chalk platforms here in this plot suggests that this area too had been built on in the post medieval period. To the north the present building is pre-1800 and may be significantly earlier than that date. It seems that this part of the Cley consisted of a number of 'burgage' plots by the post-medieval period, perhaps pre-dated by riverside activity.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2025.151).
J. Allen (NLA), 15 June 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 August 2025.