NHER 24980 (Monument record) - Medieval tofts and fishponds at Hall Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
5 January 1979. CUCAP aerial photography.
Rectangular enclosures under snow - shrunken village?
Possibly includes the 'fishponds' noted by Ordnance Survey as at site NHER 4935.
E. Rose (NAU) and D. Edwards (NAU), 14 December 1988.
Field south of farm drive under good pasture, grazed by horses.
Undulations visible. To north field unmanaged, rough grass.
No earthworks definable.
H. Paterson (NLA), 12 March 1996.
April 1996. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000 of southern part of earthworks.
Surveyed area comprises a series of ditched subrectangular enclosures extending eastwards to a sinuous probably former watercourse, with an incomplete banked enclosure and truncated boundary features on the higher ground to the west, indicating a likely series of medieval tofts (houses and garden).
See report (S1) further details and copy of plan (S2). This survey is also noted in (S5).
B. Cushion (NLA), April 1996.
25 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Earthworks visible, in particular to the southern edge of the site.
S. Massey (NLA), 22 November 2001.
October 2002.
Drainage trench dug across the earthworks and some features infilled along the east edge.
See (S3) in file.
Works by Norfolk County Council Planning and Transportation.
D. Gurney (NLA), 1 November 2002.
November 2002. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of remedial works.
See report (S4) for further details.
D. Gurney (NLA), 20 December 2002.
Associated Sources (10)
- --- SNF50733 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TL 7294D - F.
- --- SNF13225 Aerial Photograph: TL7394 H-J (CUCAP CIA 13-14).
- --- SNF93815 Illustration: Cushion, B. 1996. Plan of earthworks at Methwold SMR 24980 (part). Film. 1:1000.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF51613 Unpublished Document: Gurney, D.. 2002. Email.
- --- SNF51614 Unpublished Document: Major, J.. 2002. Letter.
- <S1> SNF92827 Unpublished Report: Cushion, B. 1996. Methwold SMR24980 (part). Earthwork Survey Report.
- <S3> SNF64210 Map: Gurney, D.. 2002. Annotated map of field observations. 31 October.
- <S4> SNF51685 Unpublished Contractor Report: Cushion, B. 2002. Hall Farm, Methwold. Remedial work to earthworks. Brian Cushion Archaeological & Cartographical Surveyor.
- <S5> SNF66779 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1997. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1996. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt IV pp 547-564. p 555.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)
Object Types (3)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 27 2021 7:43AM