NHER 26956 (Monument record) - Possible medieval salterns

September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
The features are faint but appear to be are rounded to irregular in plan, striding a meander in a relict marsh channel (S1). The features are to the landward side of the pre-1732 sea defence bank 36882, which would have cut off access to the saltmarsh and sea, although they may have been redundant before that date. This one of a small group of probable saltern mounds within this area, with a larger group situated to the south-west 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), 19 September 2002.