NHER 15538 (Monument record) - Undated enclosure and linear drainage features

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Summary

1976 aerial photography shows the cropmarks of a probable triple-ditched boundary and other linear marks representing ditches.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF60SW
Civil Parish RYSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1976 Ordnance Survey air photograph.
Cropmarks of (probable) 'triple-ditched boundary' and other associated linear marks representing ditches.

Site identified by by Kings Lynn Office of Ordnance Survey, reported by [S1] and photography inspected by D. Edwards (NAU).

See Unit 6 inch and 25 inch scale map overlays.
D. Edwards (NAU), 8 December 1979.

Note however that the triple ditch stops abruptly at a dyke, and the other lines run in similar ways.
Could be a drainage system (photograph itself not seen).
E. Rose (NAU), 18 December 1979.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1970. Norfolk Air Photo Library: Ordnance Survey Vertical Collection. 76124/376; 01-JUL-1976.

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Record last edited

Aug 12 2025 9:06AM

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