NHER 52435 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks and soilmarks of a major land boundary

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks and soilmarks of a major land boundary of probable medieval to post medieval date are visible on aerial photographs to the south of Boundary Farm Cottages, Framingham Earl (S1-S2). The site is centred on TG 2819 0258. The boundary, which consists of a central ditch and two outer banks, represents a major land division, measuring approximately 18m wide from the outer edges of the two banks. It is worth mentioning that these measurements are from mapping of soilmarks, which may provide an inaccurate assessment of the width of the former earthworks as a degree of plough spreading of the former bank material is likely to have taken place. This boundary runs parallel to the Framingham Earl and Yelverton parish boundary, which is 320m to the east. The somewhat irregular ditch to the east of this boundary is marked on the 1839 Bergh Apton Tithe map (S3). Only the northern section of the more major boundary is marked on the Tithe map. It is unclear whether this is due to the boundary having already fallen out of use by the 1830s or rather than it did not represent a property boundary of significance for the assessment of tithes. The former may be likely and it is reasonable to suppose that the boundary represents a medieval land division, part of which continues in use until the mid nineteenth century. Approximately 340m to the north the parish boundary follows a continuation of the alignment as this cropmark boundary, again suggesting the presence of a significant medieval land boundary along this alignment. Although it is tempting to suggest that the Boundary Farm Cottages to the immediate north of the site refer to this former boundary, the name is almost certainly derived from the Boundary Farm to the east, which is located on the parish boundary itself.
S. Horlock (NMP), 3 November 2009.

February 2016. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of site on proposed route of Poringland to Whitlingham Rising Main pipeline.
Although the area examined coincided with the adjoining north-to-south and east-to-west aligned cropmarks at TG 2827 0266 there was no evidence for surviving sub-surface remains.
See NHER 69530 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 18 January 2026.