NHER 57840 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Hollow way at Halfmoon Plantation

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Summary

Two parallel banks with a hollow/lower ground inbetween. The banks appear to mark either side of a hollow way, of which only this short stretch is known to survive. The probable hollow way is shown as trackway passing through Halfmoon Plantation on a historic map.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

December 2011. Field visit.
Two parallel banks with a hollow/lower ground inbetween. The banks appear to mark either side of a hollow way, of which only this short stretch is known to survive. The probable hollow way is shown as trackway passing through Halfmoon Plantation on (S1).
D. Robertson (HES), 18 May 2012.

February 2018. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The post medieval plantation banks and possible hollow way described above are visible as earthworks on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S2). They have not been mapped because, as mentioned above, they are depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map (S1).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 7th February 2018.

  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map.
  • <S2> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Santon Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).

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Record last edited

Feb 28 2023 5:50PM

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