NHER 11316 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Undated linear features

Linear feature on Ordnance Survey vertical air photograph (S1).
Another cropmark of an old road crosses it; see NHER 36861.
E. Rose (NAU).

August 2000. Field Observation and Desk-based Assessment.
Site visited and considered as part of archaeological assessment of Holkham Estate.
Arable, ploughed. No evidence on ground.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 28 April 2015.

This feature coincides with an extensive field boundary shown on a map of 1780 (S3) (reproduced in (S4)). It was one of a series of roads/trackways and major field boundaries running parallel to the coast at this time. Numerous perpendicular field boundaries ran between this feature and a road to the north (marked as 'Holkham Road') and an unlabelled trackway to the south (marked as Great Bove Hall Lane on a later enclosure map). Its line was continued to the east by section of track or road and it is possible that at least the easternmost part of this field boundary had also once been a routeway of some kind. An east-to-west aligned cropmark feature recorded as part of NHER 36861 is almost certaintly related to this feature (suggesting the its eastern end has been inaccurately mapped).
P. Watkins (HES), 29 December 2022.