NHER 2920 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of a medieval to post medieval road and associated field boundaries

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Summary

Cropmarks of a medieval to post medieval road and associated field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs. The road is marked on Bryant's 1826 county map.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF92SE
Civil Parish NORTH ELMHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

An old road is marked on Bryant's 1826 map of Norfolk (S1). This road is visible as a cropmark on Unit aerial photographs, where it is visible to TF 9858 1990. The road may be continued further by a field boundary, possibly ending at TF 9891 1920. The northern end of the road appears as double ditched cropmark.
E. Rose (NAU).

NGR corrected from original TF 9891 1920.
M. Horlock (NLA), 27 March 2003.

November 2007. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of a medieval to post medieval road and associated field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs (S2-S13). The area of this site has been extended to include the full length of the road cropmarks and the adjacent field boundaries. Cropmarks of a ditch defined road or track is intermittently visible on a northwest to southeast alignment. This road is marked on Bryant’s 1826 county map (S1) and an 1829 plan of North Elmham (S14). It is flanked by field boundary ditch cropmarks. Some of these are arranged perpendicular to the road, whilst others are aligned parallel to the Dereham to North Elmham road which lies a short distance to the west. The field pattern is similar to that shown on the 1829 plan. Isolated linear ditch cropmarks of unknown date, possibly also field boundaries, are present within this group of cropmarks.
J. Albone (NMP), 27 November 2007.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Elmham, North.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.
  • <S10> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1973. NHER TF 9819AC (NLA -/AAC3) 19-JUN-1973.
  • <S11> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1973. NHER TF 9819AF (NLA -/AAC7) 19-JUN-1973.
  • <S12> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1980. NHER TF 9819AKN (NLA 84/AMY6) 16-JUN-1980.
  • <S13> Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 524-5 07-AUG-1988 (NCC 3631-2).
  • <S14> Map: 1829. Plan of the Parish of Elmham Norfolk.
  • <S2> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TF 9819AQG (NLA 224/DJC5) 16-JUN-1989.
  • <S3> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TF 9819AQD-AQE (NLA 224/DJC2-3) 16-JUN-1989.
  • <S4> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1974. NHER TF 9820C (NLA 6/ABJ1) 21-JUN-1974.
  • <S5> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1986. NHER TF 9820H-J (NLA 178/DBE1,3) 15-JUL-1986.
  • <S6> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1986. NHER TF 9820K (NLA 184/DCR10) 29-JUL-1986.
  • <S7> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1973. NHER TF 9819AH-AK (NLA -/AAC9-11) 19-JUN-1973.
  • <S8> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1973. NHER TF 9819Q (NLA -/AAB3) 19-JUN-1973.
  • <S9> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1973. NHER TF 9819W (NLA -/AAB9) 19-JUN-1973.

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Record last edited

Mar 13 2026 3:46PM

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