NHER 67134 (Monument record) - Undated ditches

January-February 2017. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The nine trenches excavated revealed little in the way of archaeologically-significant remains, with three ditches the only features recorded. These included two adjacent, parallel, roughly north-to-south aligned features in the south-east corner of the site, one of which contained a single abraded sherd of Roman pottery. A sample taken from the fill of this feature contained a small amount of charcoal/charred wood but little else in the way of plant macrofossils. It is possible that these ditches had bounded a road or trackway.
A third north-to-south aligned ditch was recorded in the south-west part of the site. No finds were recovered from this feature.
Extensive modern made-ground deposits were revealed in the northernmost part of the site. It is clear from 19th- and 20th-century maps that this material had been dumped to infill a linear hollow that was almost certainly associated with late post-medieval quarrying. This hollow is shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition Six-inch map (S1), running between the Yarmouth Road at TG 3285 0950 and a water-filled feature at TG 3276 0948 (presumably a former quarry pit). A trackway shown running along the centre of the hollow does not appear on any subsequent map.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 27 June