NHER 63446 (Monument record) - ?Prehistoric pit and post-medieval and undated ditches

September-November 2008. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site on proposed route of Sheringham Shoals Offshore Windfarm Grid Connection cable (Trenches 114 and 115).
The two trenches excavated at this location revealed a single pit and three ditches.
The pit contained burnt flints and a single worked flint flake and was therefore potentially prehistoric in date.
An unexcavated north-north-east to south-south-west aligned ditch in the northernmost trench was dated by post-medieval pottery sherds observed in its fill and an adjacent perpendicular ditch was probably of a similar date. These ditches may correspond with former field boundaries visible on the late 19th-century 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map.
A north-east to south-west aligned ditch in the trench to the south was of unknown date.
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details. This work is also noted in (S3).
Previously recorded under NHER 51468.
S. Howard (HES), 21 March 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 June 2019.

2009-2010. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of topsoil stripping and other groundworks associated with installation of the Sheringham Shoals Offshore Windfarm Grid Connection cable.
No additional archaeologically-significant features observed and no finds recovered.
Final report awaited. See assessment report (S2) for further details. This work is also noted in (S3).
S. Howard (HES), 21 March 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 June 2019.

A combined archive comprising material from both phases of archaeological work at this site has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.361).
P. Watkins (HES), 14 June 2019.