NHER 18128 (Monument record) - Site of possible enclosure of unknown date

15 September 1981. NAU aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Rectangular enclosure - with possible entrance on southeast side.
See (S1).
D. Edwards (NAU), 5 May 1982.

February 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The possible enclosure described above is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2998 1538. Its date is uncertain, although a Roman date has previously been suggested. The southeastern side, at least, appears to form part of a fragmentary field system of possible Iron Age and/or Roman date (NHER 50726). The other elements are less easy to assign to any particular phase, and consequently have been grouped with other cropmarks of unknown and post medieval date (NHER 50823). They appear to be cut by Stonehouse Road, which is depicted on Faden’s Map of Norfolk (S3), suggesting that they are 18th century or earlier. Whether these features really do define an enclosure is also in doubt, as they are more a group of overlapping ditches than an enclosure as such. The fact that the site appears to sit on the edge of a palaeochannel (visible as a cropmark on the aerial photographs but not mapped by the NMP) could be significant, whether the cropmarks are ancient or of more recent origin.
The postulated enclosure is broadly trapezoidal in plan. It measures approximately 44m long and 34.5m wide. There is no clear evidence of a definite entrance.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 11 February 2008.