NHER 68467 (Monument record) - Undated pits, ditches and natural features

July-August 2018. Trial Trenching.
The eleven trenches excavated revealed little in the way of archaeologically-significant remains, with features limited to two possible pits, a single ditch and a number of natural features. The two pits were small features close to the northern edge of the site, one of which contained fragment of potentially Late Neolithic/Bronze Age flint debitage and several burnt flints. The second produced no finds. The ditches was a north-east to south-west aligned feature in the central part of the site that also produced no dating evidence.
Several large discrete features were thought to be probable natural solution features. One of these large hollows contained a small assemblage of worked flints, including a side scraper of probable Early Neolithic date, a blade and blade-like flake of Mesolithic to Early Neolithic date and a Neolithic end scraper. Samples taken from the fills of this feature and one of the pits produced a small number of charred plant macrofossils, including a cereal grain, small fragments of hazel nutshell and a sloe stone. Highly abraded bone fragments and pellets of fired clay.
Another blade of likely Mesolithic to Early Neolithic date was the only unstratified find recovered.
See report (S1) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.157).
P. Watkins (HES), 24 August 2024.