NHER 1871 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Undated but probably medieval to post medieval enclosure

(S1) claimed earthworks on Camping Hill (apparently this site and not the Camping Hill to the northeast of town). R. R. Clarke (NCM) thought this was merely an assumption based on the name, which in fact comes from the game of camping. The wood is called Stowes Hill on a map of 1600 (copy belonging to P. L. K. Schwabe). Campen Hill on (S2), and now Lower Coverts.

Visited by E. Rose (NAU), 25 August 1977. There is a bank about 90cm (3 feet) high along the north side of the wood, and the whole wood is raised above the neighbouring fields, but it is too overgrown to see more. P. L. K.Schwabe has found Neolithic flakes here.
E. Rose (NCM).

1st Edition Ordnance Survey (1836) (S3) marks this as a rectangular, highly embanked earthwork.
E. Rose (NAU).

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
The earthworks of an embanked enclosure visible on Ordnance Survey aerial photographs from 1973 (S4). Earthworks are depicted on the 1st edition map (1836) (1 inch, 1824-67) (S3). This would suggest that it was still recognisable as an embankment or ‘entrenchment’ at that date and therefore it is possible that it dates to the medieval to post medieval periods. However it may be a much earlier monument that persisted and has become fossilised in the plantation boundary.The aerial photographs from 1973 were the only images where the wood appears to have been recently replanted and therefore the ground coverage was quite low. Although vegetation was still masking some of the site. Although the whole site appears raised up to quite a height the only one area appears to have any great definition. This was a large oblong or rectangular area, centred on TF 9680 4172, measuring at its widest 74.5m square. The northern edge of this earthwork appears to be flanked by a ditch, up to 3m across. Also the actual northern edge of the plantation itself and also the northeastern corner seem to be defined by a quite wide and low bank, up to 13m across.
S. Massey (NMP), 10 October 2002.