NHER 43764 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Earthworks and cropmarks of medieval to post medieval field boundaries and farm

June 2006. Norfolk NMP
Earthworks and cropmarks relating to medieval to post medieval boundaries and a post medieval farm are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2). These features are located at TM 3233 9191. In the western part of this group are earthworks of ditches forming rectilinear fields. These fields measure between 60m by 105m and 52m by 85m in size. Their alignment is the same as extant boundaries around Olivers Green immediately to the west. The eastern side of these fields is defined by north to south ditch that bifurcates and turns towards the northeast. A broad bank earthwork is present along part of its eastern side and ponds are also visible. This ditch and some of the field boundary earthworks immediately to the east are marked on the 1812 Ditchingham enclosure map (S3). It is likely that these boundaries are of medieval to early post medieval date and that they were associated with Olivers Green and the moated site immediately to its west (NHER 35378). In the eastern part of the group of earthworks at TM 3238 9194 are two parallel bank earthworks. The position of these corresponds to one of the buildings at a farm marked on the enclosure map (S3). The farm is not shown on the Ditchingham tithe map, which dates to 1839 (S4), and it is likely that it is of early post medieval date. A cropmark of a linear ditch, probably a field boundary, is present at the eastern edge of this group (S2). The earthworks had all been levelled and the fields were under arable cultivation by 1984 (S2).The earthworks had all been levelled and the fields were under arable cultivation by 1988 (S2). Some of the features visible as earthworks were investigated as part of a trial trenching evaluation in 2004-5 (NHER 40213), but no useful dating evidence was recovered (S5).
J. Albone (NMP), 15 June 2006