NHER 26936 (Monument record) - Medieval saltern mound

September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks are visible as four discrete, rounded to amorphous shaped areas of lighter coloured or parched crop (S1), which may actually have formed one large mound. The site has an approximate overall north to south length of 110m and an approximate width of 70m. The are the possible fragmentary traces of ditches or relict channels around some of the edges of the mounds.
This one of a small group of probable saltern mounds within this area, with a larger group situated to the southwest in North Wootton. It is presumed that they are medieval in date, as medieval pottery has been recovered from a mound in North Wootton and the land was beginning to be embanked and reclaimed by the end of the sixteenth century. However, an earlier date for some of the mounds cannot be discounted. There are Roman period saltern mounds to the north in Snettisham.
M. Brennand (NMP), 18 September 2002.