NHER 52254 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of boundaries and enclosures of either Roman or medieval to post medieval date to the northwest of the Caistor Roman temple

These cropmarks were previously recorded under NHER 9787.

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of boundaries and enclosures of either Roman or medieval to post medieval date, are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S6) to the northwest of the Caistor Roman temple (NHER 9787). The site is centred on TG 2392 0405. These boundaries appear to pre-date those depicted on the 1840 Caistor St Edmund Tithe map (S7), but could feasibly represent an earlier medieval to post medieval phase of fields, as they follow the same dominant alignment as the existing and post medieval field layout. However it must be noted that some of the enclosures and/or fields and boundary ditches mapped also correspond with the alignment of the north wall of the Roman temenos (NHER 9787). It is therefore feasible that some of these features could be Roman in origin or at least influenced by aspects of the Roman landscape. Numerous finds of Roman date have been found within the proximity of these cropmarks, see NHER 9787 for details, although further investigation of these features would be required to elucidate the dating.
S. Horlock (NMP), 23 March 2009.