NHER 69155 (Negative evidence record) - Site with no evidence for surviving archaeological remains

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Summary

Trial trenching in 2023 demonstrated that this site had been extensively disturbed by past quarrying, with one particularly large infilled pit covered much of the area examined. The final infilling of this pit had occurred during the 20th century but it is possible it had originally been dug much earlier.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF84SW
Civil Parish BURNHAM MARKET, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

August 2023. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
Much of the area examined was shown to coincide with a large former quarry pit - this feature being encountered within all three of the trenches excavated. The edge of another quarry pit was also seen in the southernmost trench. Various modern finds were seen in the fill of the larger quarry pit, suggesting that its final infilling at least had occurred in the later 20th century. Its original age is though less certain. The Ordnance Survey First Edition Six-inch map (S1) shows a quarry pit on the other side of the site's western boundary (which originally formed part of the Burnham Market/Burnham Sutton parish boundary), but nothing is shown within the site itself on this or any of the subsequent Ordnance Survey maps consulted.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 May 2025.

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  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560. Norfolk VII.NE (Surveyed 1886, Published 1886).
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Schute, A. 2023. Land West of 40 Sutton Estate, Burnham Market, Norfolk. Archaeological Trial Trenching Mitigatory Works. Britannia Archaeology Ltd. 1365.

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Record last edited

May 25 2025 9:31AM

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