NHER 36762 (Monument record) - Possible Iron Age or Roman field system

SOME OF THE CROPMARKS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOW RECORDED AS NHER 39057 (THE POSSIBLE RING DITCH), NHER 39058 (THE SQUARE ENCLOSURES) AND NHER 39059 (POST-MEDIEVAL FIELD BOUNDARIES).

19 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks visible but indistinct due to geology.
Possibly several square enclosures or fields.
Potential ring ditch to south could be 'natural'.
M. Brennand (NLA), 22 August 2001.

December 2004. Norfolk NMP.
Some of the cropmarks described above are now recorded as NHER 39057 (the possible ring ditch), NHER 39058 (the square enclosures) and NHER 39059 (post-medieval field boundaries). NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 30703 35737 to TG 3077 3565.

Field boundaries are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 3077 3565. These are likely to be the remnants of a field system, possibly of Iron Age to Romano-British date. It shares the same orientation as other field systems and field boundaries tentatively dated to this period which have been mapped in the surrounding area, e.g. NHER 38961. A probable farmstead (NHER 15911) which may also date to this period lies approximately 230m to the south, and the field system described here might be associated with this settlement site. It also surrounds, and is probably associated with, two rectilinear enclosures (NHER 39058). Post-medieval field boundaries (NHER 39059) mapped over the same area provide a terminus ante quem for the site.

The field system is visible across an area measuring approximately 490m by 380m. It is broadly rectilinear in layout but is too fragmentary for any overall pattern to be discerned.
(S1)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 9 December 2004.