NHER 49021 (Monument record) - Roman roadway and other features at Caistor Hall Hotel

October 2006. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site of proposed hotel extension. Trenches 1-5. Contexts 1-75.
Cut features which may be attributed to the late Roman period include pits and ditches, along with a wheel-rutted roadway. A layer of Romano-British 'bioturbated subsoil' was also recognised in all five trenches.
Three 4th century coins were found, one of which was recovered from a soil layer which appeared to have formed above the abandoned roadway.
Other finds include Roman pottery and glass sherds, some of which was recovered from a feature described as a sunken featured building, which may or may not date to the Roman period.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.104).
J. Allen (NLA), 8 March 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 July 2015 and 12 May 2019.

March 2007. Borehole Survey.
Window sampling evaluation of site of proposed hotel conservatory extension. Contexts 100-130.
All ten window samples indicate that post medieval to Victorian landscaping had taken place throughout the survey area.
Six of these samples also contained a disturbed layer of subsoil characterised as Romano-British 'bioturbated subsoil', which contained Romano-British pottery dated to the 1st to 4th centuries AD.
For report (S3) for further details.
E. Bales (NLA), 28 May 2008.