NHER 36880 (Monument record) - Possible medieval sea defence or boundary bank
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF62NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1944. RAF air photography.
A denuded (and possibly breached) sea wall is visible as earthworks from TF 6441 2596 extending northeast to TF 6507 2627.
The apparent facts that this feature is respected by adjacent ridge and furrow, and that the probable sea defences recorded on a 1588 map are beyond it, suggest that it is of medieval date at the latest.
A. Miller (Suffolk County Council NMP), 30 June 2000.
September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
An 80m long western extension to bank NHER 36880 is visible as a faint parchmark with a narrow ditch on its northern side, running from TF 6436 2593 to TF 6428 2590 (S1). The bank appears to be heading for, or terminating against, saltern mound NHER 36914, although the bank NHER 36917 may have originally been a further extension of this one. The curvilinear ditch NHER 26949 may mark the course of a further element of this bank.
M. Brennand (NMP), 19 September 2002.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF50552 Map: 1588. Castle Rising Chase.
- --- SNF50513 Map: NMP Plot.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF87690 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/106G/LA67 3159-3160 1944.
- <S1> SNF10423 Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. Norfolk Air Photo Library: BKS 1988 Vertical Survey (Commissioned by Norfolk County Council). 5193: 30-SEP-1988 (BKS/3641).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Apr 16 2025 11:31AM