NHER 54650 (Monument record) - Site of enclosures and trackway or ditch of probable medieval to post medieval date, associated with moated site of Primrose Farm

August 2011. Norfolk NMP.
A group of probable enclosures, together with a trackway or ditch and a possible building platform, are visible as earthworks and a cropmark (the possible building platform) on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 0724 0180 and TG 0734 0156. They lie to the immediate north and south of the medieval moated site of Primrose Farm (NHER 8912). The features are presumed to be contemporary with the use of the moat, and therefore of medieval to post medieval date; certainly the partial enclosure visible to the north seems to respect and link to the moat’s northwest corner. They presumably relate to paddocks, horticultural plots, and similar features linked to life within the moat, although the possibility that the southern group of enclosures relate to former property boundaries or crofts relating to the village as a whole cannot be ruled out. It is not clear whether any of the features just described correlates with the cropmarks mentioned in notes relating to NHER 8912, for example (S4).
The identification of a possible building platform at TG 0730 0183 is uncertain, as is the precise form of the enclosures to the south of the moat, which on some later photographs appear more as scarps than ditches and could in part relate to drainage. A line of three or four possible enclosures is visible in this southern area, broadly rectangular in plan and measuring approximately 45m east to west and between 17m and 47m north to south.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 15 August 2011.