NHER 5001 (Monument record) - Pilgrims Walk, medieval pilgrimage track

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Summary

Pilgrims Walk is a flat-topped earthwork situated in a mature pine plantation to the north of Weeting. An early 19th century source indicates that it was used by pilgrims on their way to Walsingham. The current path runs for approximately 940m in a north to south direction.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79SE
Civil Parish WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Ordnance Survey Antiquity.
R. R. Clarke (NCM) note - see Museum plan in Thetford Corporation records marking way from Weeting to Northwold called Old Lynn Way (? = Pilgrims Walk - or road to west?). The two crosses (one cross broken in two?) and two hills. West is a hill called Ringhone. Way from Northwold to Thetford passes between the two. Another hill is Robin Hood's Butt and another is Mill Hill near Mundford ('windmill' on Ordnance Survey is on it) not easy to interpret.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

For these barrows and cross see separate cards by A. J. Lawson (NAU), and others.
See file NHER 4996.

'In the fields of Weting north of the town is a green-way called 'Wolsingham-way', used (as it is said) by Pilgrims on their way to the Lady of Walsingham' see (S1).
Ordnance Survey Records (S2).
R. J. Rickett (NLA), 13 April 1990.

Flat-topped earthwork bank marking the route of Pilgrim's Walk.
Runs for approximately 940m in a north-to-south direction and is located in mature pine plantation to the immediate east of the north-to-south track. Approximate dimensions are 6m wide and 80cm high. Described by (S3) 'it can still be traced through the fields to the northward, having a width of 20 feet (6.1m) and raised 2 1/2 feet (0.76m)'.
K. Sussams (SAU), 2 January 1996.

February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this embankment are clearly visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S4).
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 February 2017.

April 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The northernmost section of the trackway described above was mapped as part of Stage 2 of the project. The banks flanking the trackway are most clearly visible on imagery from the lidar survey flown in 2015 (S4).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 18 April 2019.

  • --- Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. and Hewitt, H. D. 1914. An Early Norfolk Trackway: the 'drove' road. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt IV (for 1913-14) pp 427-434. p 428.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Weeting.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Vol II. p 173.
  • <S2> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Records / Pastscape.
  • <S3> Publication: Clarke, W. G. and Clarke, R. R. 1937. In Breckland Wilds. Second Edition. p 88.
  • <S4>XY LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #63835 Lidar transcription of banks and ditches present in TL87NE/TL79SE, ENF141031]

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Sep 3 2020 1:47PM

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