NHER 51696 (Monument record) - Medieval pit and post-medieval ditch, School Road

August 2008. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
Trench one, located adjacent to school road had to be abandoned after a large concrete pad was encountered. Trench two was aligned east-west in the northern edge of the site. A modern east-west wall was encountered, constructed of yellow brick. A semi-circular pit was identified at the eastern end of the trench. One sherd of abraded medieval pottery was recovered from the fill. Trench three was aligned north-south in the north-western corner of the site. Two twentieth century wells were recorded at the eastern side of the trench. Both had a domed caping of red brick. To the western end of the trench a culvert was recorded, built of red brick. Trench four was located to the south-west of the survey area. One ditch running north-south was identified, and late medieval/ post medieval brick and a cow's jawbone were recovered from the fill. Trench five, positioned along the southern edge of the site, uncovered vast amounts of modern brick and concrete rubble thought to be demolition rubble from a telephone exchange that used to stand on the site.
See report (S1) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.167).
H. White (NLA), 2 April 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 June 2019.