Monument record GSE 074 - Roman/Saxon buried soil and prehistoric features, 1 Pinbush Road

Initially miss-numbered GSE 088. An evaluation by trial trenching was carried out on the site of a proposed workshop/office building. Two trenches (total area 100m2) were excavated, representing 4.5% of the total area of the development site. The natural stratum was yellowish brown sand with pebbles and some localised patches of clay/silt. A prehistoric buried soil horizon directly overlay the natural sand. It contained small amounts of abraded later prehistoric pottery (including flint-tempered Iron Age fabrics) and later prehistoric struck flints. The surface of the buried soil horizon was at depths of 0.56m-0.90m below current ground level. In Trench 1 the buried soil horizon was cut by a ditch of probable prehistoric date and an undated but presumed prehistoric posthole. These features were sealed by a subsoil layer that contained Roman and Middle Saxon pottery, a post-medieval topsoil/ploughsoil and a modern turf layer (S1).

Possibly Roman cropmarks formerly recorded under this number can be found under GSE 087.

March 2023. Assessment of the Character and Significance of East Anglian Field Systems project.
The site described above was included in the dataset analysed for the Historic England-funded Assessment of East Anglian Field Systems project. See the project report (S2) for further details.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk County Council Environment Team), 21 March 2023.