NHER 52259 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of boundaries and enclosures of either Roman or medieval to post medieval date

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of boundaries and enclosures of either Roman or medieval to post medieval date, are visible on aerial photographs to the south of Caistor Lane, Caistor St Edmund (S1-S4). The site is centred on TG 2408 0365. The site consists of a group of fragmentary field boundaries and enclosures/fields, that clearly predate the current field layout and that depicted on the available historic maps, such as the 1840 Caistor St Edmund Tithe map (S5). One of the main components is a square enclosure or paddock, 35m across, at TG 2429 0363 (S1, S4) and a broad L-shaped ditch, either a boundary ditch or partially visible rectilinear enclosure, and trackway at TG 2384 0368 (S2). The date of these cropmarks is uncertain, as some elements fit well with both components of the Roman, for example NHER 9787 and 52244, and the medieval to post medieval field layout. Large quantuitues of Roman date material has been found within the general vicinity of these cropmarks (NHER 9802, 9805, 9807 and 13558).
S. Horlock (NMP), 11 March 2009.