NHER 52110 (Monument record) - Possible Iron Age to Roman enclosures or field boundaries and possible trackway

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Summary

Cropmarks of possible field boundary or enclosure ditches were visible on aerial photographs. The alignment of these ditches does not correspond with the historic maps of the area, rather it is similar to the possible Iron Age to Roman enclosure 355m to the north (NHER 51946), and the features may therefore date to this period. The features seem to represent two parallel enclosures or field boundaries, and as the ditches run parallel to each other it is possible that a trackway existed between them. They appear to be overlain by medieval to post medieval enclosures (NHER 51954).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG21SE
Civil Parish GREAT AND LITTLE PLUMSTEAD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May 2009. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks of two undated possible field boundary ditches were visible on aerial photographs (S1), centred on TG 2961 1011. The ditches run parallel for approximately 15m, on a northwest-southeast alignment, approximately 8m apart, before they diverge, to create the corners of two possible enclosures or separate fields, with a possible trackway running between them. Their alignment does not correspond with the historic maps of the area, rather it is similar to the possible Iron Age to Roman enclosure 355m to the north (NHER 51946) and late prehistoric to Roman field boundaries identified approximately 450m to the south east (NHER 49553), and the features may therefore date to this period. They appear to be overlain by medieval to post medieval enclosures (NHER 51954).
E. Bales (NMP), 21 May 2009.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1976. MAL 76053 163 29-JUN-1976 (NMR).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96248 0394-5 22-JUL-1996 (NMR).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 02-JUL-2006 Accessed 08-SEP-2009.

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Record last edited

Sep 14 2020 3:23PM

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