On Sunday 24 June 2007, during the annual Norton Walkabout, Norton Community Archaeology Group excavated two test pits in different parts of the village. This was designed to recover artefactual evidence with the hope of characterising the principal periods of occupation in the areas sampled.
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90 Norton Road is also listed, again as a structure of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century date. It is the westernmost of a symmetric pair of cottages with a thatched roof; the method of construction is not known at present. It lies next to a pasture with earthworks that was surveyed in January 1986.
Test pit excavations in Norton, June 2007 Keith J Fitzpatrick-Matthews Introduction
. The work was directed by the writer and was carried out by Mick James, Phil Thomas, Chris Hobbs, Tony Driscoll, Hilary Wood and Nigel Harper-Scott. The trenches were opened, partly excavated and backfilled on the same day; neither was bottomed. One was located on the north side of the garden of 15 Church Lane, the other to the west of the cottage at 90 Norton Road.
Background Neither property has been the subject of previous archaeological investigation. 15 Church Lane is a listed timber-framed building of later eighteenth-century date. Although at one time it formed a pair of cottages, it is now in single occupation. It consists of one and a half storeys, with a thatched gabled roof. It lies towards the southern edge of the historic village and is the last property on the north side of Church Lane.
15 Church Lane
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