Record Details
NHER Number: | 13513 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Womack Water |
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Summary
A now flooded medieval peat cutting.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 392 177 |
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Map Sheet: | TG31NE |
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Parish: | LUDHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Medieval peat working.
See (S1).
September 2008-September 2011. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 6). These works include the excavation of a new soke dyke along the eastern side of the channel connecting Womack Water to the River Thurne.
No archaeologically significant features or deposits were exposed. As elsewhere a sequence of dark grey and brownish orange clayey silts were exposed, sealed by a thin topsoil. Close to Womack Water peat was visible beneath the clayey silts.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 February 2018.
Monument Types
- PEAT CUTTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S1> | Monograph: Lambert, J.M. & Jennings, J.N.. 1960. The Making of the Broads: A Reconsideration of their Origin in the Light of New Evidence.. |
<S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 2016. Womack Water to Hickling Broad, Compartment 6, Broadland Flood Alleviation Project. Monitoring of Works under Archaeological Supervision and Control. Heather Wallis. 175. |
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