NHER 64665 (Negative evidence record) - Site with no evidence for archaeologically-significant remains

This site formerly lay on the route of the Midland and Great Northern Join Railway, a little way to the north of where the Great Yarmouth to Sutton Bridge line terminated at Beach Station. The late 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps show a range of railway structures at this location, including a signal box, a coal yard and cattle pens. The coal yard was accessed by a siding equipped with a turntable. By the 1920s this land has seen a number of changes, with additional sidings created where the coal yard had previously lain. The original turntable had also been replaced by one further north, adjacent to Sandown Road. The buildings that now stand to the east of the site had also been constructed by this time, occupying a plot that had previously been a stone yard.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 March 2020.

September 2012-February 2013. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of new housing development.
The stripping of overburden down to formation level revealed mixed deposits of demolition rubble and hogging. Sections of the old railway track and wooden sleepers were also exposed. The subsequent excavation of house foundations also revealed nothing of archaeological significance, with overburden lying directly above natural yellow sand. A sewer trench did however expose a surviving section of the early 20th-century railway turntable. This had been constructed from sandstone blocks bonded with a hard cement. Two square nails that would have secured the track were recovered.
The excavation of a large central soakaway exposed a large displaced concentrate block but no features or structures of interest.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES),11 March 2021.