NHER 49786 (Monument record) - Medieval to post medieval field boundaries and post medieval rubbish pits, Hillcrest, Mundesley Road

January and April 2007. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of new residential dwelling. Contexts 1-8.
Three shallow linear ditches were identified in section. One of these ditches was associated with a single sherd of 16th- to 18th-century pottery, but this may have been residual. A further sherd of post-medieval pottery was recovered from the topsoil in this area. These ditches were likely medieval to post-medieval field boundaries related to linear features visible as cropmarks in adjacent fields (NHER 36763 and NHER 39075).
Several shallow pits containing post-medieval and modern pottery, clay pipe stem fragments and clear bottle glass were identified at the eastern end of an area of topsoil stripping for a driveway. Metal-detecting in this area recovered four post-medieval copper alloy items: two buttons, a watch key, and a furniture fitting.
See report (S1) for further details. See also (S2).
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.65).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 26 Februry 2008. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 June 2019.