NHER 39058 (Monument record) - Undated enclosures and Iron Age or Roman field systems

December 2004. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described below were previously recorded as NHER 36762.

Two enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1). The northernmost is centred at TG 3081 3572; the second enclosure, which lies approximately 70m to the south-west, is centred at TG 3074 3563. There is little information from which to date the enclosures or to guess their function. Their shared alignment with field boundaries of possible Iron Age to Romano-British date (NHER 36762) may indicate that they are of similar date. For example, the north-east corner of the northern enclosure appears to be respected by a field boundary to its north, although its east side is overlain by a second boundary ditch which is thought to date to the same phase of activity. Post-medieval field boundaries (NHER 39059) which have been mapped over the same area, and which also overlie the northern enclosure, provide a terminus ante quem for the site.

Both enclosures are rectilinear in plan with rounded corners. Both are only partially visible. The northernmost measures approximately 45m by at least 36m. That to the south-west measures 40m by at least 30m.
(S1)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 9 December 2004.