NHER 29748 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Earthworks of probable medieval to post medieval drainage ditches to the south of North Creake Abbey (NHER 1953)

May 1988. BKS air photography.
Linear earthworks ?fishponds, ?enclosures, to south of North Creake Abbey.
Photo ref. BKS/NCC 1005-1006 (27 May 1988).
Located 14 January 1993 during NLA Earthwork Survey.
M. Flitcroft (NLA), 28 January 1993.

March 2000. Earthwork survey at 1:10000 and report in file for NHER 1953.
Recording earthworks to northwest and south of the remains of the abbey and farm buildings. The church and surviving claustral was also surveyed. No convincing earthwork features of medieval date were noted in the gardens of the house. The large pond is 19th century, the western one may be for farm use the eastern one now ornamental.
See report (S1) for further details and plan (filed under NHER 1953).
B. Cushion, April 2000.

December 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The suggested enclosures or medieval fishponds described above are more likely to be drainage ditches of medieval to post medieval date, which are clearly visible on visualised lidar data (S2). They appear to fit with the wider network of drainage features across the broader abbey site, recorded as part of NHER 1953, rather than being something more distinctive. See too the published earthwork survey of the site in Cushion and Davison 2003 (S3). The features are clearly visible on aerial imagery from 2020 (S4), and it is likely that the earthworks still survive.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 7 December 2025.