NHER 6228 (Monument record) - Roman building and multi-period finds

1957.
Pottery ploughed up.
Trial excavation of ditch and horse burial.

1969.
Scatter Roman pottery and brick.
It appears that slag from iron working was also recovered at this location - see notes in file.

Spring 1979. Excavations by Gresham's School.
Thick ash level or ditch fill.
Wall.
Pottery and Roman objects.

25 May 1979. Excavations by Gresham's School.
Plaster, wattle and daub, nails, floor tile, glass, pottery and animal bones.

June to July 1979. Excavations by Gresham's School.
Ditch running northeast to southwest.
Footings of mortared flint.

November 1979. Fieldwalking by Gresham's School.
Roman coin. See list in file.

Spring 1980. Excavations by Gresham's School.
Ditch 1m wide and 35cm deep.
Scatter of flue tiles, pottery roof tiles. At west end of scatter burnt daub.
Second section of ditch excavated on line of that previously recorded.

1980. Fieldwalking by Gresham's School.
Roman coin, pottery, daub and enamelled furniture knob.

Spring 1981. Excavations by Gresham's School. On area of burnt daub scatter.
Spreads of daub and Roman brick, pottery, coin, copper alloy working waste and partly melted objects.

1982. Excavations by Gresham's School.
Roman pottery.

See (S1) for details of the fieldwork undertaken by Gresham's Archaeological Society between 1978 and 1982. According to (S1) the site was discovered in 1957 and trial excavations recorded the skeleton of a horse. Fieldwalking and trial digging on a grid system located a "rubbish ditch" and proper excavation began in 1978. These excavations revealed two almost parallel ditches, the remains of a collapsed wall of wattle and daub and possibly its foundations. These have been interpreted as a villa.
M. Dennis (NLA), 18 April 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 February 2014.

15 March 1993. Fieldwalking and metal-detecting.
Found by [1] in field to north of road (at [2]):
1 Mesolithic flint axe (2/3s only).
1 Neolithic flint scraper.
3 Roman coins, 1 lock pin or furniture/box handle.
1 undatable clay object which could be either wattle-marked daub or plaster with 'keyring' or decoration on surface.
All finds apart from the coins were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.25.3). It appears that they were not initially reported to the NHER - the above list is taken from the museum's records. The coins were identified by J. Davies (NCM), see list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 September 2008. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 31 July 2014.

Before 3 September 2004. Metal detecting.
Iron Age coin and brooch.
Roman and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 December 2004.

2009. Finds from Gresham School excavations are in store at the School.
See notes in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 21 January 2009.