NHER 26998 (Monument record) - Cropmark and earthwork of probable post medieval sea defence bank

September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
The feature is visible for a length of 660m, running in an approximate east to west direction (TF 5729 2508 to TF 5664 2495). The bank has a width of 15m. The easternmost 180m of the feature is situated to the seawards side of an extant sea defence bank, and is visible on the saltmarsh as a low earthwork (S1). The westernmost and larger part of the bank is visible as a cropmark (S1). This section is depicted as a bank on the Ordnance Survey map second edition (S2), although the eastern end is likely to have been relict by that time. The bank does not appear on Faden’s map of 1797 (S4) but is partially depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (S3), suggesting it was constructed in the first quarter of the 19th century. To the north of the western end of the bank is a curvilinear length of cropmark (TF 5641 2497 to TF 5667 2502) which may be the remains of a length of ploughed out bank, but may equally be the remains of channel or ditch cleaning.
M. Brennand (NMP), 30 September 2002.