NHER 45089 (Monument record) - Site of multi-period field boundaries and trackways

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
An extensive area of multi-period cropmarks is visible on aerial photographs (S1)-(S7), centred around TG 4212 1647. For the most part, they appear to represent field boundaries and trackways reflecting several different phases of activity. Their general appearance, together with excavated evidence for activity in every period from the Neolithic to 20th century from a nearby site (NHER 21837), suggests that several periods from at least the Bronze Age to the post medieval are probably represented. Some of the latest or most long-lived elements are depicted on historic maps, such as the parish Tithe maps (S8)-(S9), while others fit the same pattern of enclosure. The complex yet intermittent nature of the cropmarks means that no attempt has been made to separate out distinct phases for individual recording, but the site encompasses two areas of cropmarks and soilmarks which had previously been recorded individually: NHER 30633 and 8536.

The cropmarks are visible across an area measuring approximately 2.285km northwest-to-southeast and 1.090km northeast-to-southwest. Other, possibly associated cropmarks visible in the vicinity of the site, such as NHER 34228 to the north and 45099 to the east, could extend the limits of the site even further. It should be noted that rectification of some of the oblique aerial photographs (chiefly (S4) and (S5)) was poor for at least some areas of the site. This is likely to have had a negative impact on the accuracy of the mapping.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 29 September 2006.