NHER 64667 (Negative evidence) - Site with no evidence for archaeologically-significant remains

January-May 2015. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of various groundworks at Denton Lodge Water Treatment Works, the majority of which were restricted to small, specific areas.
Topsoil across the site was between 0.20m and 0.60 deep and lay above an intermittent subsoil deposit. In some areas there was considerable evidence for ground levelling and elsewhere there was evidence for localised truncation and disturbance by existing services and buried plant.
No archaeologically-significant features or deposits were observed and no finds were recovered.
There was therefore no evidence for the post-medieval gibbet that stood somewhere in the vicinity, possibly on the remains of a Bronze Age barrow (NHER 13114). A reconsideration of the cartographic evidence for this site does though suggest that the gibbet at least probably lay to the north-east of its currently mapped location, beyond the boundary of the Water Treatment Works.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.281).
P. Watkins (HES), 12 March 2021.