NHER 26452 (Monument record) - Late Saxon rubbish and medieval well, courtyard behind No 70 King Street

January 1997.
Observations of excavations in courtyard.
Evidence suggests the court has never been built over.
Further details to come.
Compield by E. Rose (NLA), 30 January 1997.

Report in file (S1) expands results to say that there were two undated postholes to the west, two Late Saxon rubbish pits and a medieval/Post medieval well but the courtyard area had not as a whole been disturbed since Late Saxon/Medieval dumping. Some residual Roman and Middle Saxon pottery.
E. Rose (NLA), 30 July 1997.

30 January-27 February 1997. Watching Brief.
Context run 1000-1010.
A watching brief of building works at the rear of 70 King Street showed the correct level of natural ground immediately to the north of King Street and recovered several sherds of Roman pottery, which may support suggestions that the street is of Roman origin. Decayed organic material of eleventh century date beneath the present day surface of the courtyard may be build-up of refuse within a Saxon yard. Alternatively it may have been deliberately dumped to raise the level of the ground along the west bank of the river. A circular well of flint, brick and mortar construction was situated immediately to the north of a late Medieval wall from the house of the Pied Friars. It is possible that the two were contemporaries.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2). See (S3) for further discussion of the Pied Friars of Norwich.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2024.196).
A. Shelley (NAU), 17 August 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 October 2024.