NHER 32231 (Monument record) - Undated cropmarks

3 June 1992. NAU air photography.
Cropmarks of building.
D.Edwards (NAU).

July 2004. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks of undated rectangular buildings, pits and ditches are visible on aerial photographs (S1). These cropmarks are located at TG 3500 3245. Cropmarks possibly representing the robbed out walls or foundation trenches of a building are present. Two parallel linear cropmarks measuring 14m long and 6.5m apart are visible on a northeast to southwest axis. Two possible robbed out internal walls lie at right angles between these, apparently dividing the building into three sections. No end walls are visible but a short length of possible wall trench is suggested by a cropmark extending northwest from the southwest corner of the building. However, this could be a separate pit adjacent to the building. The cropmark evidence could indicate either a masonry structure, the foundations of which have been robbed out, or a timber-framed structure with foundation trenches. The plan of this building is similar to medieval structures, but an earlier date need not be ruled out. No buildings are shown in this area on the 1845 Bacton tithe map (S2) or later maps. Cropmarks showing the corner of a second possible structure or a right-angled ditch are visible 25m to the northwest of the main building. The date of this possible building is also unknown. Several linear ditch and sub-rectangular pit cropmarks are present in the vicinity of the possible structures. It is not clear whether these are related to the buildings or are of a different date. The pits, which measure between 5m by 3m and 7m by 4m, all have a similar southwest to northeast alignment to the large building. These features could be extraction pits or further structures, possibly even Saxon grubenhauser. However, in the absence of any dated artefacts from this field, these interpretations are speculative.
(S1-2)
J. Albone (NMP), 14 July 2004