NHER 11857 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Earthworks of medieval to post medieval settlement, field boundaries and drainage ditches

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Earthworks (now partly levelled) most likely associated with medieval to post medieval settlement, possible enclosures, field boundaries likely forming part of a field system, boundary banks and drainage ditches are visible on aerial photographs from 1946. Additional features are also visible as cropmarks and soilmarks on aerial photographs. Some of the features still survive as low earthworks on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2017.

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Map sheet TF91SE
Civil Parish SCARNING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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South of Brooke Farm, north of railway.
Subrectangular earthwork enclosures in pasture.
Air photographs checked by E. Rose (NAU), 30 November 1976.

1976 air photographs show these continue south of the railway (now bypass).

February 2025. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
Earthworks (now partly levelled) most likely associated with medieval to post medieval settlement, possible enclosures, field boundaries likely forming part of a field system, boundary banks and drainage ditches are visible on aerial photographs from 1946 (S2-S3). Additional features are also visible as cropmarks and soilmarks on aerial photographs (S1 and S4-S8). Some of the features still survive as low earthworks on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2017 (S9). The features are not recorded on the historic maps such as S10 and S11. The possibility that some of the features could relate to post medieval to drainage also cannot be ruled out.
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 14 February 2025.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: TF 9512A-F,H,J; TF 9512 K-P.
  • <S10> Map: 1847. Scarning tithe map.
  • <S11> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/100 V 5300-5301 30-MAR-1946.
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/106G/UK/1606 RV 6270-6271 27-JUN-1946.
  • <S4> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. OS/64197 V 026-027 13-SEP-196.
  • <S5> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridean Airmaps. 1961-1971. Norfolk Air Photo Library: Meridian Airmaps Collection. 117196-117197 16-APR-1969.
  • <S6> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. MAL/71118 V 093 15-JUL-1971.
  • <S7> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 10-JUN-2022 Accessed 12-FEB-2025.
  • <S8> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Bluesky International Ltd and Getmapping Plc. unknown. Aerial Photography for Great Britain (APGB) Orthophotographs. https://www.apgb.co.uk. Bluesky International Ltd APGB Imagery TF9512 17-JUL-2022.
  • <S9> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LIDAR Data. National LIDAR Programme TF91SE DTM 1m 17-NOV-2017 TO 24-NOV-217.

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Mar 26 2026 3:08PM

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