NHER 31712 (Monument record) - Earthworks of medieval bank, enclosure, toft and trackway, northeast of Home Farm

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Summary

This is the site of a medieval common edge boundary ditch and abutting enclosures, including a possible toft. A former roadway and bank are also present on this site, and in 2004 a site visit reported that the earthworks were well maintained.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00NW
Civil Parish WHINBURGH AND WESTFIELD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

January 1996. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000. Grassland to north-east of Home Farm has medieval common edge boundary ditch and abutting enclosures, including possible toft. Former roadway from Home Farm northwards to Dereham Road is also denoted by a bank, probably to east side of road.
See report (S1) for further details and copy of plan (S2). This survey is also noted in (S3).
B. Cushion (NLA), January 1996.

April 2004. Visit.
Earthworks in good pasture, usually cattle grazed in summer months. Stewardship Agreement on farm.
H. Paterson (A&E), 29 April 2004.

Management Statement signed 5 May 2004.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1973. OS 73-238-105.
  • <S1> Unpublished Report: Cushion, B. 1996. Whinburgh SMR 31712. Earthwork Survey Report.
  • <S2> Illustration: Cushion, B. 1996. Plan of earthworks at Whinburgh SMR 31712. Film. 1:1000.
  • <S3> 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 562.

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Record last edited

Nov 12 2015 12:25PM

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