NHER 36324 (Monument) - Undated ditches and pit and unstratified prehistoric worked flints

September to October 2001. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of extension to holiday village and adjacent miniature golf course.
A service trench dug in the south-east part of the site revealed two features that could have been either north-to-south aligned ditches or pits. Neither produced any dating evidence. The majority of the other excavations were relatively shallow. Only turf was removed from the caravan bases and the stripping for an associated access road exposed only the top of the subsoil. The hollows excavated on the new golf course were also of limited depth, with investigations at these locations focused on the adjacent topsoil dumps. Finds were largely limited to a small assemblage of probable Late Neolithic to Bronze Age worked flints, the bulk of which were recovered from the soil disturbed during the creation of the golf course.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA), 24 December 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 September 2025.

October 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks of ditches following a similar direction to those revealed the watching brief have been mapped within the vicinity of this site. These are recorded under NHER 43495 and are thought to be associated with the large Roman field system to the northwest, although it is possible that this area of the site may be an earlier or later phase of the site, see record for details.
S. Massey (NMP), 24 October 2006.

September 2023. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of site of proposed extension to existing holiday park.
The majority of anomalies identified clearly relate to features associated with the 'pitch and putt' golf course that currently occupies the proposed development area. These include responses associated with greens, bunkers and an irrigation pipe.
The one response of archaeological interest is a north-north-east to south-south-west aligned linear anomaly in the north-east part of the site that appears to at least partially correspond with a previously mapped cropmark (part of an extensive group of potentially Iron Age to Roman features recorded as NHER 43496). There was no evidence for surviving sub-surfaces remains associated with various other fragmentary cropmarks mapped at this location (elements of groups recorded as NHERs 43495, 43496 and 45159).
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 September 2025.

November-December 2023. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site of proposed extension to existing holiday park.
The nineteen trenches excavated revealed a number of ditches and a pit that had survived the construction of the 'pitch and putt' gold course in 2001, although unfortunately these features produced little in the way of dating evidence.
The single pit recorded was a fairly unremarkable feature close to the western edge of the site.
The majority of the surviving ditches lay in the easternmost part of the site, including a north-north-east to south-south-west aligned feature that had been identified by the preceding geophysical survey and possibly related to a previously recorded linear cropmark (part of a group of potentially Iron Age to Roman remains recorded as NHER 43496). Other features recorded in this area included a fairly substantial east-to-west aligned ditch that coincided with a short linear geophysical anomaly and a shallow, intermittent north-to-south aligned ditch or gully in the same trench. A flint flake of Late Neolithic/Bronze Age date found in the latter was the only find recovered during this work.
Two ditches were recorded in the south-west part of the site, including a north-north-east to south-south-west aligned feature that possibly relates to a linear cropmark mapped at this location (part of a group of potentially Roman remains recorded as NHER 43495). A north-north-west to south-south-east aligned ditch to the north also corresponds with a previously mapped cropmark, although this is part of a group thought to represent post-medieval boundaries (NHER 45159).
There was no evidence for surviving sub-surface remains associated with various other linear cropmarks investigated during this work (the majority part of groups of potentially Iron Age to Roman remains recorded as NHERs 43495 and 43496).
See report (S4) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 September 2025.