Record Details
| NHER Number: | 39600 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval occupation debris |
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Summary
Archaeological investigations in this area revealed a series of features dating to the medieval period including ditches, pits and a cess pit, along with medieval pottery. This evidence suggests occupation in this area during the medieval period. Artefactual evidence also points to activity and possibly settlement in this area in the Early Saxon period, although this evidence is more tenuous.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 37329 13338 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG31SE |
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| Parish: | SOUTH WALSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 2003. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site. Contexts 1-24 used.
Four ditches were recorded, two of which were certainly of medieval date.
Two undated post-holes and a part of a large medieval feature thought to have been in use as a cesspit were also found. There were few finds to aid dating, but a medieval date for some of the cropmarks (NHER 11859) seems likely.
See report (S1) for further details.
A. Cattermole (NLA) 10 May 2004.
September 2003. Excavation.
Excavation of footprint of proposed dwelling. From context 100.
Pottery of Iron Age or Early Saxon date was recovered from three features, perhaps suggesting that one may relate to an Early Saxon sunked featured building or grubenhaus. However, it is possible that this pottery was residual.
Most of the recorded features were medieval in date, including two parallel ditches running approximately east-west. A small group of pits and postholes were located at the western end of the site. To the east lay another group of pits and postholes, along with a hearth. These features probably relate to a post-built structure.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
A. Cattermole (NLA) 7 March 2007.
An archive presumed to include material from both phases of work at this site has now been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.432).
P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.
Monument Types
- POST HOLE (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Early Saxon - 800 BC to 650 AD)
- POST HOLE (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
- DITCH (Early Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)
- GRUBENHAUS? (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- POST HOLE? (Early Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)
- CESS PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POST BUILT STRUCTURE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POST HOLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- QUERN (Undated)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2003. An Archaeological Evaluation at Manor Farm, South Walsham. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 864. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Town, M. and Penn, K. 2004. An Archaeological Excavation at Manor Farm, South Walsham. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 898. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. 2004. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2003. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt III pp 573-588. p 586. |
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