Record Details
| NHER Number: | 59 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Possible Saxon pottery and metalworking site, 8-10 Exchange Street |
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Summary
In 1970 Saxon pottery sherds and fragments of burnt clay were retrieved from a trench dug between the buildings here. The sherds seemed to be fairly thick in the section from just under the floor to 0.9m below the floor level. The quantity of possible kiln clay, wasters and slag may indicate the presence of a pottery works at this location during the Saxon era.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2296 0861 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1970.
Sherds and burnt clay from spoil out of trench in middle of buildings.
Sherds seemed to be fairly thick in the section from just under the floor to 0.9m (3ft) below.
The bottom of the trench had not gone into natural.
Thetford Ware and possibly kiln clay and possible wasters and slag.
Finds held by NCM.
W. Milligan (NCM).
Monument Types
- METAL WORKING SITE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POTTERY WORKS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- KILN WASTE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Jennings, S. 1981. Eighteen Centuries of Pottery from Norwich. East Anglian Archaeology. No 13. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NW 250. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Post Roman. |
Related records
| Site 818 | Parent of: 8-10 Exchange Street (Monument) |
| Mon 549 | Parent of: 8-10 Exchange Street (Monument) |
| Mon 550 | Parent of: 8-10 Exchange Street (Monument) |
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