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Report Title
The Warrener, Thetford, Norfolk: archaeological evaluation 1996
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Wessex Archaeology - 1996
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Summary
SUMMARY Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Mr Paul Chadwick of Lawson-Price Environmental on behalf of their client, Ryan Elizabeth Holdings Plc, to undertake an archaeological evaluation of the site of proposed housing development on land at The Warrener, Thetford, Norfolk (NGR TL 859832). Six trenches representing c. 4% of the development area were machine excavated, hand cleaned and subject to sample excavation. This revealed the former edge of the floodplain of the River Little Ouse running north-west to south-east across the site. The topography of the area has been somewhat altered by subsequent infilling (in the post-Roman period) by natural ?windblown sand and construction of The Warrener public house and car park. A thin scatter of worked flint, largely of probable Mesolithic date, was recovered overlying natural on the edge of the floodplain. On the rising ground to the south of this was a network of shallow ditches interpreted as Romano-British field or plot boundaries. These are likely to have been associated with a settlement immediately to the south. No Early Saxon or Middle Saxon features or finds were present, and it is assumed that the limits of these known settlements lay immediately to the south of the evaluation site, with occupation strung out along the terrace above the floodplain covering much the same area as earlier, Romano-British settlement. THE WARRENER, THETFORD, NORFOLK ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION 1996 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-----------------------------
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................1 1.1 Project Background................................................................................................................1 1.2 Site Location, Topography and Geology...............................................................................1 1.3 Archaeological Background ..................................................................................................2 2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ....................................................................................................3 3 METHOD ................................................................................................................................3 4 RESULTS ................................................................................................................................5 4.1 The Natural Base ...................................................................................................................5 4.2 Overlying deposits .................................................................................................................6 4.3 Archaeological features .........................................................................................................6 5 THE FINDS.............................................................................................................................8 6 DISCUSSION..........................................................................................................................9 6.1 Natural topography ................................................................................................................9 6.2 Prehistoric ............................................................................................................................10 6.3 Romano-British....................................................................................................................10 6.4 Early - Middle Saxon...........................................................................................................11 6.5 Late Saxon - medieval .........................................................................................................11 6.6 Anticipated impact of development proposals.....................................................................12 7 PROJECT ARCHIVE..........................................................................................................13 8 REFERENCES......................................................................................................................141.1 Archive Index 1 sheet 1.2 Report 26 sheets 1.3 Day Book 2 sheets 1.4 Number Record 1 sheet 1.5 Context Index 3 sheets 1.6 Trench Summary Sheets 6 sheets 1.7 Context Record 25 sheets 1.8 Photographic Record 6 sheets 1.9 A1/A3/A4 Graphics 15 sheets 1.10 Graphic Register 2 sheets 1.11 Object Record Index 1 sheet 1.12 Object Record 6 sheets 1.13 Context Finds record 9 sheets 1.14 Levels book 2 sheets
Headings
Sir John Lyon House5 High Timber Street
SUMMARY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tables
1. INTRODUCTION (Fig. 1)
1.1 Project background
1.3 Archaeological Background
2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
3 METHOD
4 RESULTS
4.1 The Natural Base
4.2 Overlying Deposits
4.3 Archaeological Features (Figs 2 and 3)
5 THE FINDS
5.1.1 Animal Bone
5.1.2 Burnt and Worked Flint
5.1.3 Glass
5.1.4 Pottery
5.1.5 Stone
5.1.6 Metalwork
6 DISCUSSION (Fig.4)
6.1 Natural topography
6.3 Romano-British (54 - 410 AD)
6.6 Anticipated impact of development proposals
7 PROJECT ARCHIVE
7.2 The project archive consists of:
8 REFERENCES