NHER 42433 (Monument record) - Medieval or post medieval ditches, banks and channels

January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Earthworks of curvilinear and linear ditches, banks and channels of probable medieval to post medieval date are visible on aerial photographs (S1 and S2). These earthworks are centred on TG 4814 0774 in an area of former marshland. Earthworks of former ditches or channels and levee banks are present alongside two extant curvilinear drainage ditches that extend from west to east across this area. These earthworks define the former courses of the channels which closely mirror those of the extant ditches. At their eastern end these earthworks are cut by the course of the adjacent railway that opened in 1844. It is likely that these features originated as natural channels and were later incorporated into the drainage pattern, possibly during the medieval period. Linear sections of drainage ditch present in the north of the group are likely to be of medieval to post medieval date. A late Saxon to medieval saltern mound is present adjacent to one curvilinear ditch earthwork (NHER 42432).
J. Albone (NMP), 23 January 2006.

January-February 2023. Earthwork Survey.
Analytical earthwork survey undertaken ahead of proposed habitat improvement works.
This survey saw the examination of the field containing the bank and ditch earthworks recorded between TG 4790 0737 and TG 4820 0753 (Field C). These features were shown to survive, though they are much more substantial towards the east (Feature 8), with only the ditch identifiable at the western end of the field (Feature 9). Other, previously unrecorded earthworks at this location included a north-east to south-west aligned drainage ditch adjacent to the northern edge of the field (Field 7) and two irregular linear features at TG 4793 0743 and TG 4796 0744 (Features 5 and 6 respectively). A circular pit was also noted at TG 4791 0739 (Feature 4), which was c.2m wide and 0.45m deep.
The western end of the southernmost previously recorded earthwork (running between TG 4794 0733 and TG 4822 0738) is identifiable on the digital elevation model generated from the initial topographic survey but this fell outside the areas subject to more detailed, interpretive surveys.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 August 2024.