NHER 27466 (Monument record) - Earthwork of post medieval enclosure

April 2005. Norfolk NMP.
An embanked and ditched enclosure is visible as an earthwork, and later as cropmarks and soilmarks, on aerial photographs (S1)-(S4), centred at TG 4520 1959. Its function is unknown; it might have had an agricultural use, or be associated with nearby brickworks, e.g. the brick pits (NHER 16664) approximately 100m to the southwest or the kiln and associated pits and structures (NHER 16663) approximately 500m to the west. It is surrounded by a pattern of former drains and abuts the main drainage channels (still extant) to its east and south; these are presumably of post-medieval date, and the enclosure must therefore date to the same period. A small, sub-rectangular embanked enclosure at its west end, which has an internal ditch, may represent the remains of a building or some kind of ancillary structure or compound. It looks more like an embanked pond on photographs taken in 1995 (S3).

The main enclosure is broadly rectilinear in plan. Taking its south side to be the extant drain and field boundary it abuts, it measures approximately 103m by 71m externally, and 89.5m by 59m internally. The smaller enclosure measures 33m long and 21m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 April 2005.