NHER 1017 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of medieval 'Bosshouse' Manor

Earthwork site of three tofts (rubble walling visible on one).
A watercourse disused with retaining banks and probable causeway/barrage across.
A hollow way (?) to the southeast. Earthworks stand to 40cm in places.
D. Edwards (NAU).

29 June 1977.
Man at Norfolk show told E. Rose (NAU) that when a boy in 1939-45 war he watched a surface water drain dug
from barn across this field; it turned up much black pottery 'impressed with reeds' and revealed a circular brick floor that had been burnt. He gave the pottery to the village school but has not seen it since.

[1] believes this to be a manorial site rather than tofts.
E. Rose (NAU) 26 May 1982.

See notes in file

Ordnance Survey account in file also suggests mill mound.
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 19 July 1990

September 1994. Earthwork Survey.
River courses, enclosure boundaries, building outlines and possible fish ponds recorded on earthwork survey at 1:1000.
See report (S2) for plan and further details. This site was included in (S3) and the survey is also noted in (S4).
B. Cushion (NLA) September 1994.

Map of 1630 shows east side of the stream as 'Scite of ye Mannor of Bosshouse' thus appearing to confirm a manorial origin.
Copy in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 17 December 1997.

Scheduled 1998.
The scheduling interprets it as a manorial site with garden earthworks and 'mill mound' being a prospect mound.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 June 1998.