NHER 56138 (Monument record) - Post-medieval to modern quarry pit

August 2011. Walkover Survey.
Rapid earthwork identification survey.
A number of depressions, probably former extraction pits.
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 15 September 2011.

August 2011. Walkover Survey.
Rapid earthwork identification survey.
A linear depression 40m long and 1m wide with spoil bank to the west is probably the remains of a World War Two practice trench.
This earthwork was observed several meters to the south of the likely extraction pits and as such was recorded under NHER 56143. Following subsequent observations, it was determined that these earthworks are in fact part of the extraction pits. NHER 56143 has now been revoked [2].
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 21 September 2011. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 21 February 2021.

February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The quarry pits described above are visible as the earthwork of a single, large, irregularly shaped pit on lidar imagery from a survey flown in 2015 (S2). The pit is not shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition 6-inch map (S3), but is depicted – with a similar extent to that visible on the lidar – on the 1902-7 Second Edition 25-inch map (S4), indicating a late post-medieval to modern date. The mapped extent of this site has been amended to reflect its location and extent as visible on the lidar [1], but it has not been mapped.
The possible Second World War slit trench described above in fact seems to be part of this large quarry pit. There is no evidence of a Second World War feature at this location on the consulted sources.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 February 2017.