NHER 65066 (Monument record) - Late Saxon and ?medieval pits and undated ditches

July-August 2020. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of land to be affected by proposed improvements to A11/A47 Thickthorn Junction (Trenches 79-81).
The three trenches excavated at this location revealed two ditches and two pits.
The first ditch was a north-east to south-west aligned feature seen in two of the trenches. Although this produced a single sherd of potentially Bronze Age grog-tempered pottery it was potentially associated with a former field boundary that can be seen at this location on the Ordnance Survey First Edition Six-inch map (S1).
The second ditch was aligned north-west to south-east and undated.
The two pits were adjacent shallow ovoid features of similar size. One produced a range of finds including six residual prehistoric worked flints, several sherds of Late Saxon pottery, fired clay, burnt flints and a small amount of animal bone. A sample taken from its fill produced little in the way of plant macrofossils apart from charcoal and a single charred cereal grain.
The adjacent pit produced a single sherd of medieval pottery.
No unstratified finds were recovered.
See report (S2) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2020.109).
P. Watkins (HES), 7 June 2021. Amended 27 July 2023.