NHER 27248 (Monument record) - Post medieval to modern trackways

February 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A group of linear earthwork features, possibly representing post medieval or modern embanked trackways, are visible on aerial photographs, within the dunes at Marram Hills, to the north of Waxham Sands holiday park (S1 and 2). The site is centred on TG 4544 2509. Some of these features are cut across by a possible World War Two slit trench (NHER 27250). Several tracks can be seen cutting across the Marram Hills in 1946, although by this time the earthworks mapped already look quite worn compared with those surrounding them. The relationship with the possible military trench also suggests that these features are not recent. Although it is entirely possible that they date to earlier in the twentieth century and would therefore be of little archaeological interest.

A low earthwork bank runs from TG 4534 2517 to TG 4540 2512. To the north of this is a pair of short earthwork bank sections running from approximately TG 4542 2512 to TG 4539 2518, in-between which is a slightly sinuous ditch. The line of this linear appears to be continued by another group of linear earthworks to the east. Consisting of a relatively narrow, but embanked ditched feature runs from TG 4545 2507 to TG 4553 2499. These earthworks are cut across by a possible World War Two slit trench (NHER 27250). Several tracks can be seen cutting across the Marram Hills in 1946, although by this time the earthworks mapped already look quite worn compared with those surrounding them. The relationship with the possible military trench also suggests that these features are not recent. Although it is entirely possible that they date to earlier in the twentieth century and would therefore be of little archaeological interest.
(S1 and 2)
S. Massey (NMP), 14 February 2004.