NHER 61919 (Monument record) - Medieval to post-medieval graves and finds, St Peter's Church

May 2009. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with installation of new storm drains and a soakaway to south of church.
This work mainly exposed a mixed graveyard soil containing disarticulated human bones and post-medieval ceramic building material. A post-medieval brick vault containing a number of burials was subjected to minimal disturbance during the excavation of the soakaway pit.
See report (S1) for further details. See also (S2) and (S3).
Previously recorded under NHER 10336.
S. Howard (NLA), 6 November 2009.

March 2014. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of various groundworks to north of church, including the excavation of gullies, drain runs, inspection pits and a soakaway.
An east-to-west aligned burial was encountered at a depth of 0.6m in one of the an inspection pits close to the church. This skeleton was in poor condition and there was no evidence for a coffin or any other associated items. A collection of human long bones was exposed at the same depth, these perhaps representing an earlier inhumation that had been disturbed by the nearby grave. Another grave cut was identified in the base of the pit, although no further human remains were encountered. Another east-to-west aligned burial was disturbed during the excavation of the substantial soakaway. This skeleton was encountered at a depth of 1m and was also in poor condition. The condition of the burials observed during this work suggests that they were most likely no later than medieval in date.
These deeper excavations demonstrated that a relatively thick subsoil was present beneath the topsoil. As a result no features were observed in the drain runs and gullies, which were relatively shallow and therefore only disturbed the uppermost part of the subsoil layer.
Unstratified finds recovered during this work included medieval brick and floor tile fragments, a single burnt flint and an iron nail.
See report (S4) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.224).
P. Watkins (HES), 1 November 2016. Amended 19 May 2019.