NHER 52433 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of a road or trackway and several boundaries

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a road or trackway and a number of boundaries, potentially all of late medieval to post medieval date are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S3) to the south and east of Yelverton Hall (NHER 9921). The site is centred on TG 2898 0236.
The clearest component of the site is a section of a road or surfaced track running from TG 2909 0242 to TG 2911 0236 (S1-S3). The parched central section is approximately 4m across. This road or track appears to run towards a boundary marked on the 1839 Bergh Apton Tithe map (S4). It is possible that this boundary marks the line of a former roadway or track that lead towards St Mary’s Church (NHER 12903), the Rectory and Lodge to the south. To the west of the road is an intermittent boundary ditch (S3), which follows a broadly similar course to the road/track, however it shows no obvious relationship to any of the post medieval field and property boundaries and therefore may be an earlier feature. To the west of the site are two possible linear features (S1) which are showing as soilmarks and/or marks in very short vegetation that has just been mown or cut. These marks, whilst hard to discern with any degree of confidence, look like two linear arrangements of bank and ditch. Although it is feasible that these marks are entirely the result of the recent activity in the field. If these banks and ditches are archaeological it seems likely that they were associated with Yelverton Hall (NHER 9921) to the north.
S. Horlock (NMP), 03 November 2009.

November 2025. HER Enhancement: Forestry Commission Project K.
Sections of earthwork boundary banks and ditches or a trackway of a likely medieval to post medieval date, previously mapped by the NMP survey (see above), are visible on aerial photographs (S5) and visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2021 (S6). The features are centered at approximately TG 2885 023.0 It is possible that the features could be associated with a likely medieval moat (NHER 70104) or the 17th century Yelverton Hall (NHER 9921) both recorded to the north. Further to the features mapped by the NMP survey, an east to west aligned ditch is visible on the visualised lidar data centred at approximately TG 2883 0227. This feature may relate to a further medieval to post medieval boundary or possibly to a former post medieval to modern drainage ditch.
J. Powell (Norfolk County Council Environment Service), 05 November 2025