NHER 50547 (Monument record) - Possible site of St Edmund's Church, Late Saxon occupation and inhumations, and undated finds

1957. Excavation.
Excavations conducted in the gasworks compound revealed evidence of Late Saxon occupation and iron smelting. Finds include potsherds, a lead object, and five inhumations. Flint foundations of a wall running east-west with two crosswalls running north were also encountered. These foundations appeared to be later than the burials and are believed to represent the north and east walls of a tower nave and a fragment of the north wall of the chancel of St. Edmund's Church.
See published report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2) and (S3).
Previously recorded under NHER 5868.
H. Hamilton (NLA), 31 January 2008.

August 2007. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of test pits excavated as part of environmental assessment.
Finds recovered during the watching brief included two rim sherds of Late Saxon Thetford Ware, a small quantity of animal bone and oyster shell, small quantities of metalworking debris and a small amount of human bone. The human remains appear to be from an in situ burial and likely date from the late 10th or early 11th century (or perhaps later) as a single sherd of Thetford ware was recovered from the same context. This burial may be associated with an early medieval cemetery belonging to the Church of St Edmund (NHER 5868) which is thought to be located on the site of the former gasworks immediately to the south and east of this site.
See report (S4) for further details.
See also (S5).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 27 November 2007.

January-February 2009. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of landscaping works in garden of 113 Bury Road.
Details awaited.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.103).
P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2019.