NHER 55980 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Earthwork bank of unknown date

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Summary

In February 1998 a rapid identification earthwork survey observed a north-south aligned bank of unknown date. The earthwork bank is also visible on visualised lidar data and most likely dates to the post-medieval period. It probably relates to boundaries seen on the historic mapping.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79SE
Civil Parish CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

February 1998. Walkover Survey.
Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey (Compartments 1016 and 1023).
Bank identified. This feature is aligned north-south and is 2m wide and 0.5m high. It is possible that the bank represents the southern and western boundaries of an L-shaped plantation marked on the 1 inch 1st edition ordnance survey map (1824-1836). A road running north-east to south-west is also marked on this map but is absent from the 1845 tithe map and its course can only be traced by the western end of the L-shaped plantation.
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 16 August 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 August 2015.

March 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
An undated earthwork bank is seen on visualised lidar data (S2). The bank is aligned approximately north-south before heading approximately east-west. The north-south bank is visible on the Tithe map (S3), First Edition Ordnance Survey map (S4), and Second Edition Ordnance Survey map (S5), whilst the east-west bank is only visible on the First and Second Edition OS maps suggesting the east-west bank may have been constructed later. The bank most likely dates to the post-medieval period and probably relates to boundaries seen on the historic mapping.
The mapped extent of this site has been refined and expanded to the south [1].
J.Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20 March 2019.

  • --- Map: Lenny and Croft. 1843. Cranwich Tithe Map.
  • --- Map: Ordnance Survey. 1805-1836. Ordnance Survey Map. One inch to the mile. First Edition.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Pendleton, C. and Sommers, M. 1998. Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey. Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. 98/25.
  • <S2>XY LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #65002 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF145328]
  • <S3> Map: Tithe map. Cranwich tithe.
  • <S4> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560.
  • <S5> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey second edition 25 inch (1902-7) map. 25 inches to 1 mile.

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2025 8:12AM

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