NHER 64428 (Monument record) - Undated possible peat cuttings and post-medieval/modern ditches

May-October 2010. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of new drainage dyke excavated as part of the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 6a).
Within this field the underlying natural gave way from a light yellow brown silty sand to an area of deep peat deposits, the exploitation of which resulted in the creation of Martham Broad. Several features were observed cutting into the peat, including two large adjacent features at TG 46690 20080 that were interpreted as localised, smll-scale peat diggings. At TG 46650 20100 a large feature was identified that appears to correspond with the confluence of two linear features previously identified as cropmarks on aerial photographs (NHER 42371). These ditches do not appear on early maps and are therefore believed to be of either late 19th- or early 20th-century date. At TG 46790 20090 a cluster of 20th-century objects including bottles, pottery and china was disturbed - material that had probably lain within some form of rubbish pit.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 27 August 2020.