NHER 33857 (Monument record) - Rush Green

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Summary

Surviving earthworks here indicate this location was on the former medieval common or green edge. Several enclosures have been identified from aerial photographs of the area and a map from 1811. These may indicate the site of medieval village properties (tofts).

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Map sheet TG00NE
Civil Parish BARNHAM BROOM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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January 1946. RAF aerial photography.
Series of ditched enclosures either side of farm buildings and cottages, on the north side of Rush Green.

September 1998. Visit.
Noted former common edge scarp to east of farm with subdued enclosure boundaries to north.
West of farm, similar but more pronounced scarp of common edge, with very subdued remnants of one enclosure.
Enclosure map of 1811 shows series of small enclosures of which these are remnants, in part overlain by farm buildings. The area is rather subdued and may have been ploughed and re-seeded.
B. Cushion (NLA) 28 September 1998.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TG 00/TG 0706/A.

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Record last edited

Jan 18 2011 3:10PM

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