NHER 43489 (Monument record) - Site of drainage features north of Acle New Road

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Summary

A group of drainage features of probable medieval to post medieval date is visible as earthworks, vegetation marks and soilmarks on aerial photographs. Several are depicted on 19th century maps and may be of post medieval date (or at least were still in use at this date). The slightly sinuous, curvilinear outline of the principal ditch that crosses the site from east to west, may indicate an origin in the medieval period, perhaps as a natural saltmarsh creek incorporated into a more formal system of drainage. Recent aerial photographs of the site demonstrate that the site has now been levelled.

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Location

Map sheet	TG50NW
Civil Parish	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A group of drainage features is visible as earthworks, vegetation marks and soilmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 5078 0899. Many of the drains are depicted on historic maps, such as Runham Tithe Map (S3), and perhaps originated in the post medieval period. At the same time, the curvilinear, sinuous outline of some of the ditches, particularly the one visible between TG 5067 0894 and TG 5095 0899, suggest that they could have originated as natural saltmarsh creeks. Many such creeks were incorporated into drainage schemes as the marshes were drained from at least the medieval period onwards. The drains described here probably connected to the more substantial drainage features mapped to their north (NHER 4324). One also appears to join the ditch surrounding a probable saltern mound to the northwest (NHER 4322).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 25 May 2006.

Associated Sources (3)

<S1> SNF57375 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 4034-5 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 5008A-B).
<S2> SNF57377 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89047 330-1 18-MAR-1989 (NMR).
<S3> SNF63562 Map: Manning, J.. 1839. Runham Tithe Map. No scale.