NHER 58285 (Monument record) - Medieval and post medieval field boundaries or property boundaries and pits

May 2011. Trial Trenching.
Excavation of four trial trenches recorded five north-south orientated ditches, four east-west orientated ditches, and several pits or tree throws. The majority of the ditches contained small quantities of medieval pottery and post medieval ceramic building material and clay pipe. The north-south aligned features have been interpreted as field boundaries while the east-west orientated ditches appear to have been aligned with Holt Road and may have divided the land into small roadside properties sometime during the late medieval or early post medieval period. However, these property boundaries and the majority of the field boudnaries appear to have fell out of use prior to production of the Tithe map in 1841 (S2). Two large pits possibly of medieval date were also recorded in the east of the investigated area, but their relationship to the ditches remains uncertain.
One residual prehistoric flint flake was recovered from the fill of a ditch.
See (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.392).
H. Hamilton (HES), 26 November 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2019.

2012. Excavation.
Details awaited.