NHER 41997 (Monument record) - Medieval and post medieval finds and features and site of Everard Mansion, Friar's Street

September-October 2005. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site. Contexts 1-111.
The earliest activity on the site was represented by a large, man-made steep-sided channel cutting through riverine silts. Circular midden pits were discovered within the silt matrix of this feature. This area appears to have suffered from a fluctuating water table in the medieval period, and seems to have remained an area of marginal land with a tendency to flood up until the late medieval period.
A few robbed-out foundation trenches were discovered, and were tentatively attributed to structures of a late medieval date.
Foundations of the 19th century Everard Mansion were encountered in the centre of the site.
Finds from the site included a late medieval or early post medieval purse bar, a Nuremberg jetton and a possible medieval pen or stylus made from a goose wing bone.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
See also (S3) and (S4).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2010.270).
J. Allen (NLA), 22 September 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 May 2019.