Norvic Archaeology

Name: Norvic Archaeology
Address: 2, Vimy Ridge, Wymondham, NR180PA, GB
Telephone: +447759016372

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Giles Emery, Freelance Archaeologist & Owner of Norvic Archaeology. Assisting clients in East Anglia with Archaeological Planning Conditions and Outreach.

29/03/2026

Recent development work at Brancaster, just to the west of Branodunum Roman shore fort within the vicus zone, discovered several shallow Late Iron Age pits along with 4th century Roman boundary ditches. One of the Iron Age pits contained a dump of charcoal with roasted iron ore fragments of both ferrous sandstone and non-local igneous pyrite bearing rock. A single sherd from an early 2nd century Cheese press was also found. Cheese presses are distinctive Roman period vessel forms, used to shape soft cheese into pats, often thought to have military origins and several have been found at Brancaster previously.

02/12/2025

The National Trust is currently replacing the roof of the 18th century South Corridor at Felbrigg Hall (a splendid 17th century mansion). Monitored work to install a new soakaway and rain water storage tank happened upon a shallow medieval charcoal making pit, with pottery in its backfill of 12th to 13th century date (so much older than the current house!). Several stray finds cover a vast array of time periods and include musket balls, a decorative copper-alloy 15th century strap-end and prehistoric flint.

06/11/2025

The BGU Field School (now Lincoln Bishop University) this summer investigated two medieval burial groups around the eastern end of the Haw Hill hospital chapel footprint. One burial was particularly poignant for our student team – the burial of a relatively young man with extreme scoliosis. His spine had grown as he matured into a severe S-shape, with densely fused lumbar vertebrae reducing him to something under 4ft 5”, although his long bones suggest without his debilitating disease he could have stood up to a foot taller. He was buried close to the Chancel and it is possible he spent much of his life as a respected member of the Benedictine Abbey at Bardney or in the care of their hospital site here. Detailed analysis of his remains may provide more insight into his life history and if a well healed scar on his temple may indicate interpersonal violence.

07/10/2025

I am pleased (and relieved) to say that the CRP 2025 investigation of the triple ditches that once enclosed Venta Icenorum was successfully completed after 3 full weeks of very busy excavation work. The meticulous programme of processing the numerous pottery, bone and other finds for further analysis has already begun. Thank you to all the hard work of the ever growing volunteer team and to all our many friends & visitors who supported us on both open days! These images include a rare find indeed: a fragment of Roman scale armour from the middle ditch, while the other is of the disarticulated (and partial) remains of a large dog found as a placed deposit within the inner ditch – perhaps evidence of a divination ritual? More posts on the finds will undoubtedly follow in due course.

24/08/2025

This Saturday’s Caistor Roman Project Open Day was a great success. Thanks so much to all our visitors for supporting us and we hope to see a similar turnout again next Saturday. This great find was made by Joe (one of our supervisors and Roman pottery star). Despite the passing resemblance, the classical imagery of this ceramic ?deity could be a fragment from of an antefix from a posh tiled roof.

21/08/2025

The Caistor Roman Project 2025 Summer Dig is well under way, with our trenches a hive of activity. My absolute favourite find to date is far from Roman and was discovered by the fantastic Sue - a beautiful early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead! The first of our two Saturday open days is approaching fast, so please do look at the previous post for details and come and see how the trenches are progressing.

07/08/2025

Caistor Roman Project's Summer Dig is starting very soon! Please come and support us. Our two Saturday Open Days are free to all, wander trench side and see what's been found and speak with the team and there will be archaeology stands and kids activities (including Roman lamp making and metal detecting). Only the official Guided Tours are ticketed and include a full site tour (including the finds tent and a presentation of some of our more special finds) with all funds raised gratefully received to support the project, spaces for this are limited: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/caistor-excavation-guided-tours-see-real-archaeology-in-action-tickets-1554048383549?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-term=&utm-campaign=social&utm-medium=discovery&utm-content=attendeeshare

05/08/2025

Another fantastic opportunity to try some field archaeology this August, hosted by the Caistor Roman Project. To find out more about the Archaeology Taster Sessions: https://caistorromanproject.org/news/archaeology-taster-days-2025/

21/07/2025

We came, we saw, we got sun frazzled, but we dug to the very last day and reached all our targets! Thank you to all our dedicated students and volunteers who took part in this years BGU excavations at Haw Hill. The full length of the chapel building has now been determined, which included a chancel with a thick east wall capable of supporting a decorative window. Two groups of medieval burials were found, one of which included trace evidence for a coffin. The burial zone was bordered by a large, elongated pond and two distinct phases of enclosure ditches were identified on the mound. A large c.1600s kiln was fully excavated inside the robbed remains of the chancel, with evidence of lead cupellation close by. A few handfuls of Roman pottery were recovered from the earlier subsoils, with a single 4th century coin popping up in the very last hour of work! (I’ve been hunting the rascals for 3 years now!).

03/07/2025

The BGU Haw Hill excavations have been going well, despite the scorching days. The chancel footings of the medieval hospital chapel have begun to fully emerge, although such dry conditions make everything so much harder to define and investigate. On the plus side the dry weather has produced some truly astounding cropmarks (!!!) which show the various enclosures, ditches and ponds around the mound, with a clear entrance way to the west of the main building platform.

22/06/2025

Season 3 of the Haw Hill Research Project is well under way, with Bishop Grosseteste University students toiling away for the last two weeks in each of our six trenches (in very sunny conditions!). Evidence for a chancel on the eastern end of the robbed out St Mary Magdalene hospital chapel is beginning to emerge and we are hopeful that another trench close by will soon determine the full length of the medieval building. The early medieval decorated bone handle is part of a delicate iron tool or small knife.

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2, Vimy Ridge
Wymondham
NR180PA

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+447759016372

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http://www.norvicarchaeology.com/

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