NHER 18911 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible post medieval woodland boundary bank

30 July 1979. Aerial photography by Aerial Archaeology Foundation.
Line of woodland continued by positive/negative cropmarks of bank and ditch. This line again continued (in same field) by two parallel ditches.
D. Edwards (NAU) 28 February 1983.

October 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A cropmark of a possible curvilinear bank perhaps relating to a post medieval boundary is visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2). This cropmark is centred on TG 3070 1381. A possible curvilinear bank cropmark is visible for 212m on a roughly southwest to northeast alignment. Although this feature has a similar appearance to geological cropmarks visible on (S1), it appears to continue a field and woodland boundary that extends for 465m to its southwest. This area formed part of Mousehold Heath on Faden’s 1797 Map of Norfolk (S3) and the woodland was not present at that date. The name of the woodland, ‘Eleven Acre Plantation’, suggests that it is of post medieval origin and it is first shown on the 1841 Salhouse Tithe Map (S4). It is possible that the boundary is contemporary with the woodland and dates from the early 19th century. Alternatively it may relate to an earlier undated boundary feature. Two parallel ditch cropmarks have previously been recorded on a similar southwest to northeast alignment. However, it is likely that these and other linear cropmarks visible on (S1) relate to modern land drains.
J. Albone (NMP) 9 October 2006.