NHER 52108 (Monument record) - Possible Late Iron Age/Romano-British enclosures attached to a possible trackway

May 2009. Norfolk NMP.
Two or more possible Late Iron Age/Romano-British enclosures attached to a possible trackway are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1) to the west of the Norwich to Cromer railway line, centred on TG 2772 0986.

A pair of parallel ditches, running north west-south east from TG 2766 0989 to TG 2779 0984 are visible, located approximately11m apart.On the south-western side of these ditches, two possible curvilinear enclosures can be identified, centred at TG 2766 0987 and TG 2775 0984. They measure 15m and 19m in width respectively, and the northern-most enclosure may have a second curvilinear ditch feature attached to its north-western side.
Small enclosures attached to trackways or parallel field boundaries are typical of Late Iron Age to Romano-British co-axial field systems identified in the NMP mapping of the Broads, such as those described as part of NHER 21271, where the smaller enclosures within the field system were thought to relate to possible farmsteads or livestock enclosures. Whilst it seems highly probable that these features date to the Late Iron Age to Roman period, it is also possible that they are related to post medieval activity nearby (NHER 51938).
E. Bales (NMP), 8 May 2009.