NHER 43701 (Monument record) - Undated drains, northwest of Martham Broad

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Summary

Two undated drainage ditches are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. They appear to overlie an area of probable peat extraction and are therefore unlikely to date to any earlier than the late medieval period.

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Map sheet TG42SE
Civil Parish MARTHAM, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
Civil Parish SOMERTON, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
Civil Parish HORSEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two drainage ditches are visible as earthworks and vegetation marks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2). Both are visible intermittently: the northernmost, which appears to be partly double, is visible between TG 4570 2097 and TG 4558 2093; the southernmost between TG 4571 2075 and TG 4544 2080. Neither is likely to be of any great antiquity, and certainly they post-date the silting up of the probable area of former extraction (NHER 43700) which they overlie. They seem most likely to represent attempts to drain this area of wetter ground in the post medieval or even modern period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 31 May 2006.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/832 4203-4 23-SEP-1945 (NMR).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF CPE/UK/1801 4054-5 25-OCT-1946 (NMR).

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May 3 2023 8:05AM

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