NHER 61944 (Negative evidence) - Site with no evidence for archaeologically significant remains

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Summary

In 2014 groundworks were monitored during the installation of new sewerage pipes along Church Street. Archaeologically significant remains were limited to a pair of ditches of probable post-medieval date (NHER 61945). In places it was clear that the construction of the modern road had resulted in at least a degree of truncation to underlying deposits.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM09NW
Civil Parish GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May-September 2014.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with the Great Ellingham sewerage scheme.
Five drill pits was monitored. A pair of post-medieval ditches were the only archaeologically significant remains identified (NHER 61945). Elsewhere the only deposit of note was a possible metalled surface identified in a drill pit close to the pond. In some places tarmac and hardcore deposits lay directly above the natural geology, suggesting the construction of the modern road had resulted in at least a degree of truncation to the underlying layers. This was however clearly not true for the whole of Church Street, with buried soils surviving beneath the road deposits in at least two of the pits.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 November 2016.

  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Green, M. J. 2014. Great Ellingham Sewerage Scheme, Norfolk. Archaeological Monitoring and Excavation Report. Oxford Archaeology East. 1671.

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Record last edited

Nov 4 2016 10:26AM

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