NHER 63365 (Monument record) - Post-Roman and undated features and prehistoric finds

2004-2005. Desk-based Assessment.
Archaeological assessment of possible routes for Norwich Northern Distributor Road.
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 July 2019.

April-August 2015. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site on proposed line of Norwich Northern Distributor Road (Field F1a).
The 10 trenches excavated at this location revealed a number of potentially archaeologically-significant features, including ditches, pits and natural features.
There was artefactual evidence for at least some degree of prehistoric activity on or near the site, but none of the features could be firmly dated to these periods. Stratified prehistoric finds included a Middle Bronze Age pottery sherd recovered from a north-west to south-east aligned ditch and a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age sherd that was found in one of the probable pits. Both features were otherwise undated.
A small number of burnt and worked flints were also recovered, although it is likely that the majority were residual in the contexts in which they were found. The worked flints include a possible blade of potential Mesolithic/Early Neolithic date and a number of Neolithic/Bronze Age flakes.
Features of probable later date included a pit in the northern part of the site that produced a small assemblage of Late Saxon and early medieval pottery sherds. An adjacent possible gully produced a single Late Saxon pottery sherd.
Layers of colluvium or hill-wash were present in the lower-lying parts of the site.
Although two of the trenches coincided with a previously identified fragmentary linear cropmark (NHER 53485) no corresponding sub-surface remains were identified.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 May 2019.