NHER 68900 (Monument record) - Post-medieval remains

September 2018. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site of proposed extension to residential home.
A sequence of clayey silt riverine deposits were encountered at the base of the single trench excavated, one of which contained a small quantity of late medieval/early post-medieval pottery. A number of features of probable post-medieval date truncated these deposits, including a north-west to south-east aligned gully, a later east-to-west aligned ditch and a sequence of three intercutting pits. Although many of these features contained medieval brick and tile fragments the earliest of these also contained pieces of post-medieval ceramic building material. It is possible that this material resulted from the demolition of a nearby building that had incorporated a mix of medieval and post-medieval building material. One of the pits also contained clay tobacco pipe bowls of 17th- to 19th-century date, while the most recent feature in the sequence contained a complete wooden plank. This final pit and the ditch were truncated by a brick-lined drain of probable 18th- or 19th-century date. These remains were sealed by a sequence of late post-medieval or modern demolition layers, the uppermost of which lay immediately below the topsoil.
No unstratified finds were recovered.
Information from report uploaded to OASIS. HER copy awaited.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.326).
P. Watkins (HES), 3 February 2025.