NHER 61906 (Monument record) - ?Prehistoric, Late Saxon and undated features

June-July 2015. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
Four of the five trenches excavated revealed archaeologically significant remains, albeit at low densities. The oldest feature was probably a small pit that was almost entirely filled with a dump of fire-cracked stones and charcoal. This potentially prehistoric feature produced a single flint flake of Neolithic/Bronze Age date.
Several narrow east-to-west and north-to-south aligned gullies or truncated ditches were also identified. One of these features produced a small assemblage of Late Saxon pottery sherds, but finds from the others were limited to a single Roman pottery sherd. The alignments of these features do however suggest that they could represent a single phase of land division.
An irregular linear feature interpreted as a possible plough scar produced a small assemblage of post-medieval/modern finds.
Several undated pits were also excavated, one of which contained the remains of a juvenile pig. It is possible that these pits were of relatively recent date and associated with a former farm building that occupied the south-west corner of the site until the later 19th century.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.315).
P. Watkins (HES), 31 October 2016. Amended 27 May 2019.