NHER 42395 (Monument record) - Possibly medieval drainage ditches or channels
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG40NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HALVERGATE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Earthworks of curvilinear drainage ditches or channels of unknown, possible medieval, date are visible on aerial photographs (S1). These earthworks are centred on TG 4512 0660 in an area of former marshland. A curvilinear ditch or channel flanked by levee banks extends for approximately 360m on a roughly northwest to southeast alignment. Its southeastern end appears to join an extant linear drainage ditch. This curvilinear ditch is of unknown, possibly medieval date and may have originated as a natural channel. To the south of the curvilinear ditch is a short section of southwest to northeast aligned linear ditch flanked by banks. This ditch appears to be an early course of the adjacent modern drainage ditch and is probably post medieval in date.
J. Albone (NMP), 16 January 2006
September 2011.
Google Earth imagery suggests these features had been ploughed flat by 1999.
K. Powell (HES), 19 September 2011.
Associated Sources (1)
- <S1> SNF60452 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1951. RAF 540/465 3188-9 20-APR-1951 (NMR).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
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Record last edited
Jun 20 2017 11:32AM