NHER 49403 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of an Iron Age to Roman field system and possible farmstead

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Summary

Cropmarks of field boundaries and enclosures of Iron Age to Roman date are visible on aerial photograph. They form part of a more extensive field system (NHER 49400, 21271).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG40NW
Civil Parish FREETHORPE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

July 2007. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of field boundaries and enclosures of Iron Age to Roman date are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2). These cropmarks are centred on TG 4259 0514 and were previously partly recorded as NHER 11684 and 17772. Cropmarks of roughly north-west to south-east aligned field boundaries are present. These form a continuation of an Iron Age to Roman field system to the west (NHER 49400 and 21271). Two double-ditched ‘long boundaries’ or trackways are present in the southern part of the group spaced 90m apart. The southernmost of these cuts across a group of rectilinear enclosures at TG 4255 0500. The enclosures possibly relate to an Iron Age to Roman farmstead belonging to a different phase of activity to the field system.
J. Albone (NMP), 06 July 2007.

  • <S1> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1978. NHER TG 4205E (NLA 19/ADU66) 28-JUN-1978.
  • <S2> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TG 4205AB-AD (NLA 233/DPF13-5) 04-JUL-1989.

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Jun 27 2025 8:41AM

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