SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL  AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

The Site of Sedgeford Hall’s Bowling Green: An Archaeological Evaluation

by
Rik Hoggett and Naomi Payne

SHARP SITE CODE: SH00BGE

NORFOLK SMR No.: 1601 C2


The Bowling Green Site under trees, July 2000.

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INTRODUCTION
IDENTIFYING THE BOWLING GREEN SITE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
TEST PIT ONE 
TEST PIT TWO
TEST PIT THREE
TEST PIT FOUR
TRENCH ONE
CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project is grateful to the landowners of Sedgeford Hall, Professor Bernard and Susan Campbell, for granting permission to conduct the fieldwork reported below.

Thanks are due to the excavation team - Sophie Cabot, Stuart Calow, Erica Darch, Daisy Eaton, Paul Gardner, Rik Hoggett, Marion McCabe, Naomi Payne and Peter Taylor - and also to Georgina Robotham for producing the Ceramic Report.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England for providing a copy of the hand drawn map.

We are also grateful to Bill Armitage for his recollections of the bowling green's existence.