NHER 27707 (Monument record) - Post medieval drainage ditch

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
The earthworks of a post medieval drainage channel are visible on aerial photographs, to the northwest of Brograve Farm (S1). The site is centred on TG 4400 2551 and the linear earthwork runs from TG 4401 2558 to TG 4398 2545. The ditch varies in width from 2 to 4m. The channel is L-shaped and the longer arm corresponds with a curvilinear boundary enclosing the edge of the marshes on the Waxham Enclosure map (S2). This map must have been surveyed between 1820 and 1840, as the Waxham New Cut is marked, and this navigable channel was dug in the 1820s (NHER 35366), and before 1840, as this is the date of Waxham Tithe map (S3), at which time the boundary is still in use.
S. Massey (NMP), 30 September 2005.