NHER 63097 (Find Spot record) - Post-medieval/modern finds and undated worked wood

April-August 2011. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of flood defence works undertaken along the bank of the River Bure as part of the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 9).
A number of finds were recovered during topsoil stripping in this field, including 24 post-medieval/modern pottery sherds, clay tobacco pipe fragments and a single post-medieval copper alloy nail. Although these objects are themselves unremarkable their presence in the marshes is unusual. They are probably the result of this land having been manured with material that incorporated household refuse.
A number of pieces of wood were subsequent observed within disturbed material at the margin of a newly excavated drainage dyke. Although it proved impossible to retrieve the disturbed pieces, one that remained in situ was found to be a sharpened stake. There was no suggestion that these pieces of wood had formed any kind of structure.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2017.