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Archaeological Monitoring for a Swimming Pool at Stow Bedon Hall, Lower Stow Bedon, Norfolk. |
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Norvic Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
The results of archaeological monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction an outdoor swimming pool, at Stow Bedon Hall, Lower Stow Bedon, Norfolk. Although much renovated and rebuilt, elements of the Grade II listed Stow Bedon Hall are of 17th century date. Evidence of former boundary and/or drainage ditches of probable medieval or post-medieval date have previously been identified from aerial photographs of the fields west and southwest of the hall. South of Stow Bedon Hall, several concentrations of burnt flint representing hearth activities of prehistoric date have been noted. In the same area, crop-marks of ditches, enclosures and trackways of probable medieval and post-medieval date have been seen on aerial photographs. It is possible that these features were associated with the deserted medieval settlement of Little Breckles, which lay a little further south. Across the eastern end of the construction footprint for the area of the swimming pool, remains of a former 19th to early 20th century cobbled yard surface, thought to be associated with an adjacent cart shed, were recorded below c.0.4m to 0.5m of topsoil. The subsoil was c. 0.4m deep and sealed a linear ditch with a concave profile of uncertain date, from which a single residual prehistoric struck flint was recovered. |
Author: |
J W Percival
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Publisher: |
Norvic Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Norfolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Stow Bedon Hall, Lower Stow Bedon |
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Norfolk |
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Breckland |
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STOW BEDON |
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England |
Grid Reference: 596750, 294390 (Easting, Northing)
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norvicar1-208233 |
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Norvic Archaeology Report No. 57 |
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21 May 2019 |