NHER 65468 (Monument record) - Late post-medieval/modern and undated features

April 2016. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The five trenches excavated revealed a number of linear and discrete features, although these were all probably of limited archaeological significance.
A north-east to south-west aligned ditch seen in two of the trenches corresponds with a former field boundary depicted on 19th-centutry maps. Other remains of probable recent date included a feature interpreted as a north-to-south aligned ditch (which produced a small assemblage of late post-medieval/modern pottery) and at least one pit. The other discrete features exposed were all fairly unremarkable, with at least two thought to be natural in origin.
A sample take from one of the undated linear features was found to contain a single carbonised chickweed seed and common fragments of oak charcoal.
The datable unstratified finds were all also of late post-medieval or modern date. These included a fragment of clay tobacco pipe stem and pieces of ceramic building material recovered from a humic ('peaty') subsoil at the northern end of the site.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.400).
P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2022.