NHER 68706 (Monument record) - Post-medieval to modern and undated remains

August 2016. Desk-based Assessment.
Assessment of potential impact of proposed development.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2024.

October 2020. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site, following demolition of buildings associated with Erne Farm, including the early 19th-century farmhouse and contemporary threshing barn (NHER 49766).
The nine trenches excavated revealed little in the way of archaeologically significant remains.
A trench placed to coincide with the site of the farmhouse confirmed that no sub-surface remains associated with this building now survive. Brick structures recorded in an adjacent trench do though appear to have coincided with the walls of a perpendicular outbuilding that had lain to the east. The recently demolished building had been of 20th-century date but had occupied the footprint of an earlier, 19th-century structure. A brick taken from one of the exposed foundations is of 19th-century or later date.
A sewer structure was exposed to the west of the site of the farmhouse. This was built from bricks of 17th to 19th-century date but capped with a concrete and corrugated iron cover.
Two parallel north-north-west to south-south-east aligned ditches recorded to the north of the site of the farm building were post-medieval – both clearly corresponding with the boundaries of a small plot of land that can be seen on the Necton tithe map (S2). One contained brick and tile fragments of 18th-century or later date.
The only other feature of note was an undated north-north-west to south-south-east aligned ditch at the southern edge of the site.
No unstratified finds were recovered.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2024.