NHER 68209 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Levelled earthworks of probable medieval to post medieval boundary ditches or drains

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Summary

Boundary ditches and/or drainage ditches, of probable medieval to post medieval date, are visible as earthworks on 1940s and later aerial photographs. They are not visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2017, or on the latest available aerial photographs from 2022, and have presumably been levelled.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SE
Civil Parish SCARNING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

March 2024. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
Boundary ditches and/or drainage ditches, of probable medieval to post medieval date, are visible as earthworks on 1940s and later aerial photographs (S1-S3). They are not visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2017 (S4), or on the latest available Google Earth aerial photographs from 2022 (S5), and have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 21 March 2024.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/52 V 5068 31-JAN-1946.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/100 V 5426-5427 30-MAR-1946.
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. OS/64197 V 058-059 13-SEP-1964.
  • <S4> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LIDAR Data. National LIDAR Programme TF91SE DTM 1m 17 to 24-NOV-2017.
  • <S5> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 06-OCT-2022 Accessed 21-MAR-2024.

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Record last edited

Aug 29 2025 3:01PM

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