NHER 37729 (Monument record) - Prehistoric circular pit, possible Late Saxon or medieval field system

November 2002 - January 2003. Geophysical survey. Bacton to King's Lynn Transco pipeline. Construction section 44, plot number 48.
Geophysical survey identified a significant number of linear anomalies.
See (S1).
J. Allen (NLA), 25 August 2006.

March - August 2003. Excavation.
Excavation revealed a prehistoric large circular pit which may originally have been associated with a Bronze Age 'burnt mound'. An irregular shaped hollow also contained burnt flint. Possibly the mound was levelled and the flints re-deposited during the medieval period.
A series of ?Late Saxon narrow ditches were probably the remains of a field system, a scatter of residual Late Saxon ceramics perhaps suggests a pre-Conquest origin.
During the medieval period the field system was modified, and a curvilinear ditch appears to define the western side of a droveway. A much more substantial rectilinear field system clearly replaced the narrow strip fields and two parallel ditches could have formed another droveway.
See (S2).
J. Allen (NLA), 25 August 2006.