NHER 61987 (Monument record) - Earthworks of possible post-medieval cultivation or plantation ridges

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Summary

An area of boundary banks and possible cultivation and/or plantation ridges is visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data at this location. Several faint areas of parallel ridges can be discerned on the lidar, predominantly within the framework of the boundary banks. Earthworks similar to this have tentatively been interpreted as possible ridge and furrow, cultivation or plantation ridges, potentially of post-medieval date and related to episodic and short lived expansion of agriculture onto the poorer land. However it is possible that these ridges relate to twentieth century or earlier forestry activity.

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Location

Map sheet	TL78NE
Civil Parish	WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
An area of boundary banks and possible cultivation and/or plantation ridges is visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1-S2) at this location. Several faint areas of parallel ridges can be discerned on the lidar, predominantly within the framework of the boundary banks. Earthworks similar to this have tentatively been interpreted as possible ridge and furrow, cultivation or plantation ridges, potentially of post-medieval date and related to episodic and short lived expansion of agriculture onto the poorer land. However it is possible that these ridges relate to twentieth century or earlier forestry activity.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 14 February 2017.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF94129 LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
<S2> SNF94129 LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Santon Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).