NHER 54658 (Monument record) - Site of probably post medieval double-ditched boundary, track or drain

The cropmarks described below were previously recorded as part of NHER 8893.

19 June 1995. NLA air photography (S1).
Cropmarks of parallel linear banks and ditches visible.
Cropmarks indicate a sub-rectangular double-ditched enclosure. Its rounded corners are reminiscent of a Roman fort structure, although its date and function are unknown.
S. Massey (NLA), 4 May 2001.

October 2011. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described here and above were previously recorded as part of NHER 8893. The entry above in fact refers to two, interlinked sets of cropmarks, visible on two sets of photographs; the individual entries were conflated and confused when transferred from the paper record, where a photographic source had been omitted.

Parallel linear ditches, and perhaps banks, visible as cropmarks at TG 0655 0372 on aerial photographs (S1), are modern drainage features. They have not been mapped by the NMP and to a large extent fall outside the boundary relating to this record. The cropmarks of a postulated sub-rectangular double-ditched enclosure, visible at TG 0635 0385 on aerial photographs (S2) (the origin of the entry above) and also (S3), have been mapped, although their archaeological significance is uncertain. The cropmarks lie to the immediate northwest of the modern drainage cropmarks already mentioned, and they might form part of the same scheme. They could instead relate to a trackway, similar to that depicted to the southeast on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25 inch map (S4), whose form they mimic, or to a field boundary. Their alignment and general appearance, however, make a post medieval date very likely, and there is no evidence that they form part of a larger enclosure.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 October 2011.