NHER 45049 (Monument record) - Undated, possibly late prehistoric ditches

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of an area of undated, but possibly late prehistoric ditches are visible on aerial photographs to the west of Lowestoft Road, Hopton on Sea (S1-S4). The site is centred on TG 5233 0024. These ditches are located within an extremely busy area of cropmarks, including a barrow cemetery (NHER 43526) and a possible Iron Age to early Roman date farmstead (NHER 43525).

The site consists of a number of fragmentary linear ditches, which are likely to represent former field boundaries. A number of these are double ditched and these may be the remains of trackways. These cropmarks appear to pre-date the Iron Age to Roman enclosure and are therefore likely to be late prehistoric in date, but later than the barrow cemetery.
S. Massey (NMP), 12 September 2006.

January-February 2013. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site between Lowestoft Road and A12.
This work revealed a range of archaeologically significant features, the majority of which appear to have been associated with Roman-period activity. However, although several of the trenches coincided with linear cropmarks assigned to this group, no corresponding subsurface remains were identified. It is therefore possible that these fragmentary cropmarks were associated with features that have now been lost as a result of plough truncation.
See report (S5) and NHER 62519 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 February 2018.

March 2023. Assessment of the Character and Significance of East Anglian Field Systems project.
The site described above was included in the dataset analysed for the Historic England-funded Assessment of East Anglian Field Systems project. See the project report (S6) for further details.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk County Council Environment Team), 22 March 2023.