NHER 67481 (Monument record) - Post-medieval ditches

August 2016-August 2017. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of three new dwellings and associated detached garages.
There was evidence for considerable disturbance associated with the construction and demolition of the industrial building that had previously occupied the site. Only a small area of subsoil survived, at the northern end of the building's footprint – elsewhere the site had clearly suffered at least some degree of truncation.
The only surviving features of note were two ditches of probable late post-medieval date, one aligned north-north-west to south-south-east and the other east-north-east to west-south-west. The former appears to coincide a former field boundary shown on the Martham tithe map (S1). The roughly perpendicular ditch to the west was clearly of a broadly similar date as its infill was found to contain a variety of late 19th- to 20th-century domestic rubbish, including pottery, glass bottles, a piece of window glass and oyster shells.
Unstratified finds were limited to two 20th-century white metal produce label tags.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 August 2023.