Record Details
| NHER Number: | 36804 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval hearth and floors at Market Street/Memorial Green |
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Summary
A desk based assessment outlined the potential for archaeological remains at a site threatened by a development at Market Street, East Harling. Consequent archaeological evaluation recorded a medieval hearth, a succession of medieval clay floors and an earlier medieval ditch and pits.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9935 8649 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL98NE |
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| Parish: | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February 2002. Desk-based Assessment and Trial Trench.
Evaluation of proposed development site. Contexts 1 to 25 used.
Trenching revealed a ditch and pits, and the floors of a medieval building. Note that most layers were only examined in section.
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.305).
D. Gurney (NLA), 26 March 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 May 2015 and 15 April 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BUILDING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FLOOR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HEARTH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Unknown date)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 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 | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2002. Report on a Desk Based Assessment and Archaeological Evaluation at Market Street, East Harling, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 686 (revised). |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2002. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Market Street, East Harling, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 686. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2003. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2002. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt II pp 368-384. p 372. |
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