NHER 12988 (Monument record) - Possible prehistoric pit

The cropmark enclosure previously recorded under this number has now been assigned to NHER 31518

1976. Aerial photography.
Cropmark of three sides of a trapedzoidal enclosure.
Located by E. Rose (NAU) 3 January 1978.

13 July 1976. NAU aerial photography.
Cropmarks of linear and rectilinear features.
See (S1).
The southern side of the enclosure as plotted on (S1) is in writer's opinion too faint and dubious to be included in the county number.
E. Rose (NAU).

1991 to 1992. Watching Brief. Norwich Southern Bypass. Site 15.
On site of cropmark.
Possible pit, circular. 1.1m diameter, 0.4m deep, rounded base. No finds. Possibly prehistoric.
See unpublished document (S2) for further details.
See published monograph (S3) for summary of watching brief work.
E. Rose (NLA), July 1992

September 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmark enclosure previously recorded under this number has now been assigned to NHER 31518, due to it appearing to form part of a wider spread of enclosures, trackways and fields, which have tentatively been recorded as being Iron Age in date, see NHER 31518 for details. However it is likely that the cropmarks represent more than one phase of features, in particular in the area to the south of Lodge Farm. If no components of the site had been dated through excavation a date of medieval to post medieval would probably have been assigned to the vast majority of the cropmarks, due to their apparent shared alignment with other components of the medieval to post medieval landscape, such as other historic field boundaries and the Costessey/Bawburgh parish boundary, which runs through the site. The enclosure to the immediate south of Lodge Farm could easily have been interpreted as being either Iron Age to Roman or medieval to post medieval in date. The area has been subject to a number of evaluations and surveys and finds in the area include Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman, plus medieval to post medieval artefacts (NHER 16398, 29047, 33842 & 53154, 37646 and 39351).
S. Horlock (NMP), 07 September 2010.