NHER 23839 (Monument record) - Undated trackway

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Summary

A possible medieval trackway is seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs and seen on the ground as part of a fieldwalking survey. The possible trackway consists of two parallel ditches and is aligned approximately north-south. The possible trackway may have also related to, or been re-used as, a boundary and is mapped on the Tithe, Frist Edition and Second Edition Ordnance Survey maps. The trackway most likely relates to Cranwich medieval settlement remains (NHER 63072) in close proximity and is similar to further trackways mapped as part of NHER 63072 and NHER 35520.

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Map sheet TL79NE
Civil Parish CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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April 1987. Fieldwalking.
A line of small flints over peat was observed during fieldwalking [1]. These remains may have been part of a former trackway.
Information recorded on record card (S1).
W. Milligan (NCM), 28 April 1987.

February 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme
A possible medieval trackway is seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S2). The possible trackway consists of two parallel ditches and is aligned approximately north-south. The possible trackway may have also related to, or been re-used as, a boundary and is mapped on the Tithe, Frist Edition and Second Edition Ordnance Survey maps (S3-S5). The possible trackway is obscured by vegetation in most of the consulted aerial photographs, however it is seen clearly as a cropmark in the 1970s (S2). The trackway most likely relates to Cranwich medieval settlement remains (NHER 63072) in close proximity and is similar to further trackways mapped as part of NHER 63072 and NHER 35520.
The mapped extent of this site has been expanded from a line to a polygon [2].
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 7 February 2019.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2>XY Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/58/0475 V 0025-0026 05-MAY-1970 (HEA Original Print). [Mapped feature: #64934 Extent of cropmarks based on aerial photograph transscription., ENF145328]
  • <S3> Map: Tithe map. Cranwich Tithe.
  • <S4> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560.
  • <S5> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey second edition 25 inch (1902-7) map. 25 inches to 1 mile.

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Record last edited

Jan 31 2021 11:23AM

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