NHER 13514 (Monument record) - Site of Thurne Broad

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Summary

An area of open water depicted on Faden’s Map of Norfolk (1797) may represent Thurne Broad, a former turbary (peat extraction site), the existence of which can also be inferred from documentary records. Its absence from later maps, such as Bryant’s map of 1826, suggests that it was either infilled or that it silted up entirely in the early 19th century.

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Map sheet	TG41NW
Civil Parish	THURNE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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Approximate site of Thurne Broad (now drained).
Medieval peat working.
See (S1) and (S2).

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The former location and extent of Thurne Broad, described above, is not apparent on the consulted aerial photographs. In any case, the expanse of open water depicted on Faden’s Map of Norfolk (S2) would seem to lie somewhere to the south of the current site. Various ditches, banks and areas of wetter ground visible on aerial photographs may have been associated with it, but as these are mainly drainage features and do not form a coherent ‘site’ they have not been mapped by the NMP. They are most clearly visible, as vegetation marks and earthworks, on (S3)-(S6).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 26 September 2006.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF6693 Monograph: Lambert, J.M. & Jennings, J.N.. 1960. The Making of the Broads: A Reconsideration of their Origin in the Light of New Evidence..
<S2> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
<S3> SNF65484 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 1018-20 09-JUL-1946 (NMR).
<S4> SNF65485 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS/72018 085-6 15-MAR-1972.
<S5> SNF65486 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1981. OS/81082 225-6 17-AUG-1981.
<S6> SNF65487 Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 0346-7 07-AUG-1988 (NCC 3460-1).

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2013 11:48AM