NHER 16164 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of a group of multi-period ditches and field boundaries

6 August & 2 July 1977. Cropmarks.
NAU air photography.
Cropmarks of linear features.
D. Edwards (NAU) 23 May 1980.

Possibly an old field system
E. Rose (NLA).

The central grid reference has been altered from TM 4505 9345 to TM 4505 9351.

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a group of multi-period ditches and field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs to the north of St Mary’s Church, Aldeby (S1-S2). The site is centred on TM 4505 9351. Many of the cropmarks are of unknown date, although some have been identified as being post medieval boundaries or drainage ditches.

The majority of the ditches are too fragmentary to warrant a great deal of interpretation, but given the wealth of archaeological evidence for activity to the immediate north during the late prehistoric to Roman period (NHER 12137 for finds and 45034 for cropmarks), it is possible that this palimpsest of ditch fragments may date to the same periods. A system of ditches or drains running around the eastern side of the field are likely to be post medieval in date.
S. Massey (NMP), 01 September 2006.