NHER 25829 (Monument record) - Cotton's Drove Roman or medieval cropmark complex

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Summary

A medieval, or possibly Roman, cropmark complex straddling the border of two Norfolk and Cambridgeshire parishes.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF40SE
Civil Parish OUTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Cotton's Drove Cropmark Complex.
Edge of complex extends into area ceded to Norfolk in 1990, remainder in adjacent parish of Elm, Cambridgeshire (Cambs HER 09715). Norfolk section consists of irregular linear features with suggested Roman date because of possible mausoleum or romano-celtic temple within complex in Cambridgeshire. Also described as drainage ditches.
However there has been a suggestion that the Norfolk section is mostly medieval field boundaries. [1].

1984. Plotted by Cambridge unit.
See (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 3 September 1990.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Various. 1947 - ?. Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. CUCAP/BNA 46-48 08-AUG-1973.
  • --- Monograph: Phillips, C.W.. 1970. The Fenland in Roman Times: studies of a major area of peasant colonization with a Gazetteer covering all known sites and finds. 5, p.241. pp 241, 322.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.

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Record last edited

Apr 24 2025 11:49AM

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