In the 1980s work began on construction of the vast underground Castle
Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological
excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe,
designed to investigate not only the castle bailey but also pre-Conquest
settlement and, for the post-Conquest period, areas of the surrounding
medieval city. Although Parts I and II both contain summary accounts of
the faunal remains, setting them into their wider context and including
additional information on craft activities, the scale of the data made
publication of a separate and more specialised report on the faunal
remains desirable and this is published here as Part III.