NHER 813 (Monument record) - Medieval industrial activity, Westwick Street

July-September 1988. Excavation.
Medieval:
Industrial activity associated with textile production during the 13th-15th centuries. Numerous pits, some over 3m deep.
Small scale hearths and copious amounts of burnt soil. Pits backfilled with cess. A rectangular post hole structure (7m x 3.5m) covered a possible work area. Small rectangular flint structure surviving 3 courses high with a well to the rear at the street frontage.
Post medieval:
Rectangular brick and flint ?cess pit (3.22m x 1.40m) with three arched openings through the thickness of the east wall.
One room of brick tenement (2.6m x 3.5m). Originally the building continued along the length of St Margaret's Alley.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.403).
J. E. Bown (NAU) 1988. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 May 2019.

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