Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41734 |
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| Type of record: | Negative evidence |
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| Name: | Site with no archaeological finds or features, Dersingham Hall |
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Summary
An NAU watching brief was carried out here in 2005. The relative lack of archaeological finds or features suggests that this area immediately adjacent to the 17th century Hall remained open and under cultivation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 69160 30499 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF63SE |
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| Parish: | DERSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2005. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of new dwellings in grounds of Dersingham Hall. Contexts 1-14.
The paucity of archaeological finds or features in this area immediately adjacent to Dersingham Hall suggests that this area remained open and lightly cultivated.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2009.213).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 8 March 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2019.
Monument Types
- PIT (Post Medieval to 21st Century - 1540 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2005. An Archaeological Watching Brief at Dersingham Hall (Old Hall), Dersingham, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1095. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. 2006. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2005. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 124-136. p 126. |
Related records
| 8375 | Part of: Dersingham Hall (Building) |