Your book purchases and continued business is helping to make a difference in archaeological research in West Norfolk.

At Heritage Marketing and Publications we firmly believe in putting finance back into archaeological research in our local area. We have recently set up a research project looking at the archaeology and history along the Upper Nar Valley in Norfolk.

The project has the full support and co-operation of the Norfolk Museum Service and Norfolk Landscape Archaeology. While the project is undertaken to high professional standards and supported by involvement from professional and amateur archaeologists. All excavation, fieldwalking and metal detecting assemblages together with all other material artifacts have been agreed to be donated to the Norfolk Museum Service by the landowner. All excavation work undertaken has a full excavation/project design submitted to Norfolk Landscape Archaeology for their approval before work begins.

The project is directed by Michael de Bootman, director of Heritage Marketing and Publications together with John Shepherd, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Every Summer a group of around fifteen people excavate for a period of two weeks, while in the winter months we fieldwalk and conduct other archaeological survey work.

We have invested in top-end equipment including a twin-probe resistivity meter and recently also purchased a Bartington 601 Dual Gradiometer, (for more details see below) which has enhanced our geophysical capability. We also have access to a ground-penetrating radar.  We have tried to make the project nearly totally self-efficient in terms of equipment.

We are working with a very important and rich archaeological and historical landscape, and while we cannot discuss the exact location of the sites on this website for obvious reasons, below are images and a brief discussion on some of the work we have recently conducted.

At the present time, this project has not been set up as a formal community/research project with a hierarchy of personnel. Around twenty people are currently involved in the project from the local community and further a field; however, during 2006 we will probably be formulating the project a little more.
 

Earliest Known Roman Military Diploma from Britain
Geophysical Surveying
Largest Iron Age Pottery Assemblage from Norfolk 2003
Probable Roman Livestock Enclosure - excavations 2003
Roman Road Project - 2004-2005 - continuing work
Fieldwalking, Earthwork Surveying, Metal detecting
Helping other projects in Norfolk
Some fun pictures


With the recent purchase of a Bartington 601 dual Gradiometer, Heritage Marketing and Publications is soon to promote and conduct what may amount to one of the largest landscape magnetometer surveys in the country in the Nar Valley, West Norfolk.  There have already been five seasons of resistance survey and selective fieldwalking and excavation, supported by Heritage Marketing and Publications in the valley revealing a complex pattern of settlement from the Bronze Age to the present.

With the experience and results from this survey, and as part of its core strategy, Heritage Marketing and Publications will be working with local authorities and other archaeologists in East Anglia to survey (free-of-charge), for research purposes, key sites that deserve much better understanding i.e.the Roman Fort at Brancaster.

We will also consider commercial work with this equipment, at hugely competitive prices on  development sites.  Any income generated from this type of work will help support further sponsorship of field projects in West Norfolk. If you are a commercial unit and want a professional magnetometer survey conducted, that may not have been feasible before due to cost, then please contact us. Because this is not our core business, you may be pleasantly surprised.