NHER 27991 (Monument record) - Rectilinear enclosure cropmarks

May 2003.
An approximately square enclosure is visible (S1) to the south west of Conduit Plantation. The feature has slightly rounded corners and a probable entrance to the southeast. Many of the cropmark features within this area are former drains and post medieval field boundaries. This feature has a slightly less regular appearance and it is suggested that it is of an earlier date than many of the other features in its environs. It is potentially of a pre-medieval date, and a Roman date would not be an unreasonable suggestion.
This feature has not yet been mapped as part of 2002 Norfolk NMP, but will undoubtedly be recorded by the project, within the next 15 years.
See sketch map and photocopy in file.
M. Brennand (NMP), 30 May 2003.

January 2008. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of a rectilinear enclosure are visible on aerial photographs (S1). The enclosure has a broadly rectangular plan with rounded corners and measures 67m by 63m internally. A gap, probably an entrance is present at the southeast corner of the enclosure. This entrance leads onto a corridor or trackway along the east side of the enclosure before opening out into a second possible enclosure. The second enclosure is open on its eastern side and measures 84m by 40m. Two annexes are attached to the main enclosure. An L-shaped ditch is attached to its southern side and defines a possible annexe measuring 7m wide by at least 27m long. A second annexe is present on the western side of the main enclosure. It is trapezoidal in plan with dimensions of 17m by 13m. The arrangement of the entrance and trackway between the two main enclosures may indicate that these enclosures were related to livestock management. However, it is equally possible that they relate to a small settlement or farmstead. The enclosures do not align with the post medieval field pattern and it is likely that they have a pre-medieval, possibly Roman or Iron Age to Roman origin.
J. Albone (NMP), 29 January 2008.