NHER 63252 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Extensive area of boundary banks and possible ridge and furrow of probable post-medieval date

March 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
Four banks of unknown date are seen as earthworks on visualised lidar data (S1). The banks are aligned approximately north-south and vary in length and width. The banks are probably post medieval in date and most likely relate to former boundaries and forestry enclosure banks seen on the Tithe (S2), First (S3) and Second (S4) Edition Ordnance Survey maps. The banks are in close proximity to further possible boundary banks to the north (NHER 63253).
J.Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20 March 2019.

August 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The site described above has been expanded to cover a much more extensive area of boundary banks of probable post medieval date to the south and east. These are visible as earthworks, principally on visualised lidar data (S1) but also partially on aerial photographs (S5-S7). The banks probably represent a combination of plantation boundaries and possibly field boundaries, or similar forms of land division. Several of the banks correspond with land boundaries depicted on 19th century maps, including the Ordnance Survey First Edition 6-inch (S3), and it is likely that the features are of post-medieval date.
In some places, where multiple banks converge (as at TL 7991 9157), the sources were not sufficiently clear to be completely certain of the precise arrangement of features. The site incorporates several blocks of apparent ridging, reminiscent of ridge and furrow, which may relate to temporary cultivation of what was formerly heathland (shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition 6 inch map, S3). Other areas of ridging appear more likely to relate to modern forestry practices and have not been mapped by the project. Again, this distinction was not always clear. As the lidar survey was flown relatively recently (2015), it is probable that the earthworks still survive.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 8 August 2020.