NHER 32239 (Monument record) - Site of field boundaries and enclosures of probable medieval to post medieval date

9 July 1992. NLA aerial photography.
Curvilinear cropmarks or enclosures.
See (S1).
D. Edwards (NAU).

The main enclosure looks like a mirror of the triangular White Lodge Wood across the road, but no such wood is shown by Faden (S2), on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map (S3) or on the 1906 25 inch (S4) map. The rectangular enclosures may be an old field pattern.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 January 1997.

February 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described above form part of an extensive group of broadly rectilinear ditches visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S5)-(S12), centred at TG 2944 1630. They appear to represent field boundaries and possible enclosures. Their general pattern and orientation, which conforms to that of the modern fields and that depicted on historic maps, suggests they are of medieval to post medieval date. Several elements appear to correspond to boundaries depicted on the Wroxham Tithe Map (S13). They are clearly distinct from the field boundaries of possible Iron Age to Roman date (NHER 50714) with which they overlap to the east, which display a pronounced northeast-southwest orientation. They could, however, continue further to the west, where elements may have been recorded as part of an overlapping group of rather disparate, fragmentary cropmarks (NHER 50715), apparently derived from several phases of activity.
There is a broadly rectilinear pattern to the cropmarks, although too little is visible for any overall system of land division to be discerned. A possible enclosure with a roughly trapezoidal plan, a central internal pit, and a possible trackway forming its eastern side, is visible at TG 2890 1610. It measures 51.5m long and up to 43m wide, and is comparable to similar enclosures, also of postulated medieval to post medieval date, visible further to the southwest (NHER 36449 and 50825). A second possible enclosure is that described above, which is visible at TG 2935 1626. It has a possible entrance in its southern side. As part of only two sides is visible, its function or purpose can only be guessed at, although the suggestion given above that it represents a woodland or plantation boundary seems plausible. Parts of other enclosures may also be present, but too little is visible for these to be anything more than conjectural.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 11 February 2008.

March 2013. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of proposed development site.
This survey identified a number of linear anomalies, one of which corresponds with one of the east-to-west aligned cropmarks described above. It should however be noted that this anomaly was interpreted as being of likely agricultural origin.
See report (S14) and NHER 61655 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 12 October 2016.

August 2013. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The excavated trenches coincided with the north-to-south aligned cropmark at the northern end of this group and the east-to-west aligned cropmark to the south - both of which were found to be associated with surviving ditches. The former produced a sherd of late post-medieval/modern pottery and was one of several north-to-south aligned ditches of probable post-medieval date. The east-to-west aligned ditch produced a single Roman tile.
See report (S15) and NHER 61655 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 6 April 2021.