NHER 26475 (Monument record) - 54a St Augustine's Street

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Summary

An evaluation excavation in advance of development work was carried out in 1998. This revealed a layer containing a Roman and a medieval pottery fragment, cut by a pit and by ditches containing prehistoric pottery fragments, worked flints and bone. Two cultivation layers above this suggest the site has always been open ground since the Roman period.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NW
Civil Parish NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

Map

May 1998. Trial Trench.
Evaluation in advance of development.
Layer containing one Roman and one medieval sherd cut by pit and two ditches. The pit produced no cultural material and it was suggested that it may be a naturally formed feature. The ditches produced animal bone, worked flint and single sherds of prehistoric and medieval pottery but were probably post-medieval. The presence of probable cultivation layers suggest the site was always open ground since Roman period.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2) (in which the site number is erroneously given as NHER 26457).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2024.204).
E. Rose (NLA), 4 June 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 October 2024.

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  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1998. An Evaluation Excavation in the Gildencroft at 56-62, St Augustine's St, Norwich. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 317.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1999. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 369-387. p 380.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 20 2024 6:24PM

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