NHER 66981 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Levelled earthworks of probable medieval ridge and furrow

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Summary

Probable ridge and furrow of a medieval date is visible as earthworks (since levelled) on aerial photographs.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF80NE
Civil Parish NECTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

August 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
Possible ridge and furrow and of a medieval date is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1). The ridge and furrow has presumably have been levelled as the earthworks are no longer visible by the 1970s (S2) and is not visible on recent aerial photographs (S3).
J.Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 11 August 2023.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. HISTORIC ENGLAND ARCHIVE RAF/3G/TUD/UK/52 V 5078-5079 31-JAN-1946.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. OS/71046 V 019-20 11-APR-1971.
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Bluesky International Ltd and Getmapping Plc. unknown. Aerial Photography for Great Britain (APGB) Orthophotographs. https://www.apgb.co.uk. Bluesky International Ltd APGB TF8909 and TF8910 Imagery 17-JUL-2022.

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Record last edited

Aug 19 2025 11:36AM

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