NHER 52344 (Monument record) - Possible medieval to post medieval trackway and linear features or drainage channels

October 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A possible curvilinear trackway is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S5), along with several linear ditch and bank features, centred at TG 1603 1907.
The possible trackway consists of two parallel ditches, approximately 2m in width, and 4m apart. It stretches from TG 1596 1912 to TG1618 1914, curving to the south in between as far as TG 1610 1909. It is visible as an earthwork ditch with bank beside on (S1), with further evidence of earthworks to the south west of the possible trackway, aligned roughly east-west.
The southern-most of the earthworks stretches from TG 1588 1890 to TG 1599 1888 and appears to be a continuation of a drainage ditch visible on the 1st edition Ordnance survey map (S6). Another ditch to the west, running from TG 1571 1887 to TG 1585 1887, appears to be on a similar alignment to this drainage ditch, and has therefore been included with these features.
Linear cropmarks are also visible on (S2)-(S5). As well as the possible trackway described above, there are at least five parallel north-south ditches which appear to lead south from it. It is possible that these features may relate to drainage, as they may lead into the southern-most drainage ditch feature described above. These features are visible on (S2) cut by possible modern drainage ditches.
Not all the features show on all the available photos, so a composite picture has been built up with a number of photographs, rather like the earthworks and cropmarks that have been put together to make up a picture of Mountjoy abbey (NHER 7754) to the west. It is possible that these features are related to, and therefore possibly contemporary with, the features described in NHER 7754, but they are aligned slightly differently, and appear to relate more directly to the drains depicted on (S5), and therefore may be medieval to post-medieval in date.
E. Bales (NMP), October 2009.