NHER 52597 (Monument record) - Late Neolithic to Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, and medieval to post-medieval features

January 2009. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed tavellers' site.
Only two trenches could be fully excavated due to ground conditions. Trench 2 (to the north of the site) measured 36 meters in length. A gully, oriented north-west to south-east was identified and no finds were recovered from the fill. 9m to the west of the gully, a small sub-circular feature was excavated. It may have been a truncated pit or tree hole. A broken flint flake with possible retouch of one edge came from the fill. No finds or features were identified in any of the other trenches.
Much of the site was found to be covered with redeposited overburden.
See report (S1) for further details.
H. White (NLA), 9 June 2009.

March-July 2009. Strip Map and Sample Excavation.
A revised strip, map and sample excavation strategy was carried out following issues encountered during trial trenching in January 2009 (see above). The excavation revealed evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of flint tools of Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date recovered from a ditch, pit and post-hole. The presence of burnt flint and heat shattered pebbles in two prehistoric pits could be possible evidence of cooking activity. There was also evidence of Iron Age activity in the form of a ditch and post-hole found to contain pottery dating from the Early to later Iron Age. A gully containing a sherd of Roman pottery suggests that this site continued to be using into the Romano-British period. Later activity was represented by a post-medieval ditch or pit containing fragments of medieval and post-medieval ceramic building material.
See report (S2) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 8 April 2010.

An archive associated with the work at this site has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.556).
P. Watkins (HES), 28 July 2023.