NHER 283 (Monument record) - Medieval and post medieval features, 29 Heigham Street

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Summary

Excavations from 1975 to 1977 revealed 13th to 16th century buildings including a tannery.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NW
Civil Parish NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK

Map

1975. Trial Trenching.
Excavations revealed no Middle Saxon occuation.
13th- to 16th-century buildings including tannery excavated.
The results of this work are summarised in (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 September 2017.

April-May 1976. Excavation.
Excavation of area subject to trial trenching in 1975.
Evidence for flimsily-built outbuildings and animal pens within the yards of 15th- and 16th-century buildings. Of these buildings only a cob and flint/brick-walled rear range had survived the 19th-century road widening.
See published report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 September 2017.

  • --- *Rolled Plan: Large Plan Exists.
  • --- Monograph: Jennings, S. 1981. Eighteen Centuries of Pottery from Norwich. East Anglian Archaeology. No 13.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Post Roman.
  • --- Record Card: NCM Staff. 1973-1989. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card - Norwich.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Slide: Various. Slide.
  • <S1> Serial: 1975. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1975. No 22. p 10.
  • <S2> Article in Monograph: Atkin, M. 2002. Excavations in the Suburb of Heigham. Excavations in Norwich 1971-1978 Part III. East Anglian Archaeology. Atkin, M. and Evans, D. H. No 100 pp 199-234.
  • <S3> Unpublished Document: Atkin, M. 1977. Norfolk: Norwich [Norwich Survey excavations in 1976].
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Mar 6 2024 5:06PM

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