NHER 40192 (Monument record) - Medieval bank, roadway and post medieval activity, Bull Lane

March 2004. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of the car park at Bull Lane, which saw the excavation of three 5m x 1.6m trenches across the line of the City Wall. Contexts 1-125.
The evaluation trenches did not encounter the foundations of the city wall, demonstrating that 18th- and 19th-century construction activity destroyed any remains of the wall in this area. However, the top and south side of a raised bank were recorded and are thought to be associated with the construction of the city wall. A 'way under the walls' was also recorded as a wheel-rutted roadway running parallel to the bank. An 18th-century cellar was also found, and presumably belonged to one of the cottages known to have been built against the city wall. The Victorian development of Queen's Road was particularly visible, and consisted of brick cellars which truncated the top platform of the bank.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.264).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 6 March 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2019.