NHER 1398 (Monument record) - The Icknield Way

Prehistoric trackway reused as Roman road and medieval drove.
For details and course see file (includes excavations in East Walton 1979).
E. Rose (NAU).

February 1999. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of car park and footpath extension at Nun's Bridge, Thetford.
No finds or features of archaeological interest were recorded.
No report was produced but the archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.212).
C. F. Meckseper (NAU) 22 May 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 February 2017 and 27 April 2019.

2000-2002. Woodland Earthwork Rapid Identification Survey.
Management Unit N, Site 154:
Earthwork features potentially associated with line of Icknield Way recorded in Stanford parish.
See report (S3) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S4).
D. Gurney (NLA), 12 March 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2015.

A large linear earthwork has been mapped running through Hunstanton Park from TF 69629 40740 to TF 69112 41413 (see NHER 26941). It has the appearance of a medieval hollow way and appears to be aligned along the parish boundary. The suggested route of the Icknield Way reaches Hunstanton at this parish boundary, after which the line is not known. It is a possibility that this earthwork and cropmark marks the line of the prehistoric route, which was subsequently reused until the emparkment of the area in the late fifteenth century.
S. Massey (NMP) 26 August 2003.

(S2) suggests the Icknield Way never existed and is a medieval myth, but the detailed discussion does not include the Norfolk section.
E. Rose (NLA) 23 November 2004.

October 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A large linear earthwork has been mapped running along the eastern edge of West Tofts Heath, Lynford, from TL 8551 8941 to TL 8516 9069 (see NHER 54507). It has the appearance of a medieval hollow way and appears to be aligned along the parish boundary. The suggested route of the Icknield Way follows this route through Lynford for a time, after which the line is not known. It is a possibility that this earthwork marks the line of the prehistoric route, which was subsequently reused, perhaps even until relatively recently as a trackway.
E. Bales (NMP), 18 Oct 2010.