Record Details
| NHER Number: | 26518 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval features, Monastery Court Car Park |
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Summary
A watching brief undertaken during a tree-planting scheme in 1999 noted six planting pits cut through modern material and one that was seen to disturb two late medieval or early post medieval flint and mortar walls. These were overlain by a later wall and modern demolition rubble.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2315 0889 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1999. Watching Brief.
Observation of seven tree planting holes. All but one contained modern make up/rubble down to the maximum depth of the pits, which was 0.70 metres.
One tree pit contained a late post-medieval/early modern brick wall with associated demolition deposits. Below this two late medieval/post-medieval flint walls with associated destruction deposits were seen. The remains in this tree pit began 0.20m below the modern asphalt car park surface.
See report (S1) for further information. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
J. Percival (NAU), 11 November 1999.
Monument Types
- WALL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Ames, J. 1999. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at the Monastery Court Car Park, off Elm Hill, Norwich. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 462. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2000. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1999. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt III pp 521-543. p 533. |
Related records
| 44635 | Parent of: Art College Library, former Monastery, Monastery Court (Building) |
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