NHER 49397 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of undated, possibly Iron Age to Roman field boundaries

May 2007. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of fragmentary enclosures, field boundaries and possible trackways are visible on aerial photographs (S1). These cropmarks are centred on TG 4138 0592. A group of linear ditch cropmarks are present on roughly west to east and north to south alignments. Some of the ditches form L-shaped arrangements or cross each other suggesting that they are field or enclosure boundaries. However, the enclosures or fields that they form are too incomplete for their dimensions to be determined. One of the field boundary ditch cropmarks crosses a double ring ditch of a Bronze Age round barrow (NHER 21819). Both this ring ditch and an adjacent one are crossed obliquely by double ditch cropmarks. It is possible that these double ditches define sections of trackway, but they may just be double-ditched field boundaries. The alignment of many of the ditches in this group of cropmarks is similar to that of an extensive planned Iron Age to Roman field system located 200m to the east (NHER 49400). It is possible that they form part of this field system but the visible cropmarks are too incomplete for this to be certain.
J. Albone (NMP), 09 May 2007

May 2022. Broads Hidden Heritage: Aerial Perspectives.
Some of the cropmarks described above, together with additional features, are visible on Google Earth aerial photographs from 2006 (S2). The site has been expanded, particularly to the southwest, to encompass all the visible features.
A variety of rather fragmentary, incohesive boundaries is evident. Their varied orientation suggests that more than one phase of activity is represented. As suggested above, some of the boundaries may be contemporary with the extensive, probably Iron Age and/or Roman field system identified to the east (NHER 49400). Other features, particularly in the southwestern part of the site, may be of medieval to post medieval date. A few elements, for example the rather sinuous boundaries in the north of the site, may be earlier, possibly dating to the Bronze Age or earlier Iron Age. These appear to partially overlap and but also respect two ring ditches, themselves perhaps the remains of Bronze Age round barrows (NHER 65001 and 65002). The area of the cropmarks also includes part of a palaeochannel, the course of which is mirrored by the sinuous boundaries.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk County Council, Historic Environment Service), 10 May 2022.