NHER 3147 (Monument record) - Roman road and medieval earthworks

1954.
Remains of buildings excavated. ?Maltings or granary.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Buildings shown here on (S1), 1797.
E. Rose (NAU).

1973.
Excavations by NRC and Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society east of the deserted medieval village area revealed flint walls on timber piles and brushwood with early medieval sherds (NCM).
See (S2). (NCM card R.R. Clarke.).

June 1970.
Excavation of Roman road produced also flint foundations and medieval bricks.
See file under NHER 2796.
NB Whitwell had three mills in Domesday.
(1973 excavations were directed by Helen Sutermeister; records and finds seem to have disappeared).
A. Gregory (NAU), November 1984.

3-4 November 1984.
Earthwork survey by Cambridge Extra-Mural Certificate class under C. Barringer and A. Gregory.
Clear earthworks confined to first strip west of present road area 130m by 60m. East to west feature possible Roman road (see NHER 2796) with northeast to southwest ditch and bank meeting at east field boundary, two large depressions, each partially surrounded by banks, one good and one possible house platform. Area of earthworks defined by east to west ditch on south, south of which is a blank area to new wood not on Ordnance Survey. See plan.
A. Gregory (NAU), 5 November 1984.

January 2002.
Site under rough grassland with many clumps of tough reedy grass obscuring any earthworks in many places. Site is grazed by cattle in summer months and used as part of the wildlife/educational centre.
H. Paterson (A&E), 16 January 2001.