NHER 43691 (Monument record) - Site of probable post medieval sheep fold north of Euro-Centre Industrial Estate

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A small rectilinear enclosure is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 5200 0924. It was formed by a rectilinear ditch located in the angle of the junction between two drains; the latter are depicted on both historic (e.g. (S4)) and modern Ordnance Survey maps and consequently have not been mapped by the NMP. The resulting enclosure was probably associated with the past use of the area as grazing marsh; it may have been a sheep fold, for example. On the earliest consulted aerial photographs of the area, which were taken in the 1940s (S1)-(S2), a causeway is visible across the eastern ditch, and a narrow bridge across the western drain. The mapped elements were presumably contemporary with or later than the drains which formed the south and west sides of the enclosure. The latter form part of a linear drainage pattern of probable post medieval date, and a similar date for the enclosure seems likely. More recent aerial photographs of the site taken in 1989 (S5) demonstrate that although the drains may have remained in use at that date, the mapped ditch had been levelled by ploughing.

The enclosure measured approximately 23.5m long and 21m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 May 2006.