NHER 29004 (Monument record) - Possible Roman road and multi-period finds

May-August 1992. Fieldwalking and Metal-Detecting Survey and Watching Brief.
Fieldwork carried out along route of Yelverton to East Carleton Gas Pipeline (Survey Blocks 192-199).
Finds recovered during initial survey include:
2 prehistoric flint flakes and 'pot boilers'
2 Roman coins, 4 pottery sherds, 7 brick/tile fragments and 1 disc brooch.
2 medieval brick/tile fragments.
2 post-medieval pottery sherds and 17 brick/tile fragments.
A natural outcrop of gravel was observed during the subsequent Watching Brief undertaken during topsoil stripping and excavation of pipe trench. This feature was flanked by two ditches (both undated), leading to the suggestion that it may have borne a Roman road. A number of other features were also identified, none of which produced any dating evidence.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2). The Roman brooch is figured in (S1).
It should be noted that some of the finds listed above are only recorded in the site archive. There are also minor discrepancies between the information given in (S1) and that which was initially supplied following the completion of the fieldwork.
The finds have been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1995.75).
E. Rose (NLA) and S. Bates (NAU), February 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 March 2015.