NHER 51616 (Find Spot record) - Middle and Late Saxon pottery sherds and undated flint cobbles

November-December 2007. Auger Survey.
The survey revealed a complex sequence of Flandrian sediments overlying a gently undulating pre-Flandrian surface of fissured chalk bedrock. The earliest deposits were peats forming in topographic depressions around an early Holocene palaeochannel with lateral channel migration resulting in these areas developing into fen/mires and clay deposits. The ridge of higher ground separating the two low-lying areas consists of sandy sediments and may represent a river levee between the two areas.
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 15 December 2009.

June 2008. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of excavation of water vole ditches (part of Environment Agency's Burnham Overy Habitat Creation Scheme).
One fragment of Middle Saxon pottery and one sherd of Late Saxon pottery was recovered from the fill of the ditch to the south of the site. A layer of flint cobbles were identified in the south-facing bank of ditch 2. No traces of mortar were identified on any of the flints. No archaeological finds or features were identified in any other of the ditches.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.119).
H. White (NLA), 13 May 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2019.