NHER 45278 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of unknown, possibly Roman, enclosures

November 2006. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of rectilinear enclosures of unknown, possibly Roman, date are visible on aerial photographs (S1). These cropmarks are centred on TG 3277 1803. A large rectilinear enclosure cropmark is present on a roughly north to south axis. Its eastern side is not visible as a cropmark, but it appears to have a trapezoidal or parallelogram shaped plan with external dimensions of 140m by at least 100m. Adjoining the inside of the south side of the large enclosure is a smaller incomplete trapezoidal enclosure cropmark which measures 57m by at least 33m internally. These cropmarks are cut by Palmer’s Lane, which is marked on Faden’s 1797 Map of Norfolk (S2). It is possible that these enclosures are of Roman origin and it is not clear how they relate to undated linear ditch cropmarks that surround them (NHER 45279).
J. Albone (NMP), 27 November 2006