NHER 10032 (Monument record) - Undated square enclosure

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Summary

A soil mark of a square enclosure can be seen on aerial photographs of this site. This may be the site of a medieval moat.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM19SW
Civil Parish BUNWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1973. Ordnance Survey vertical air photograph.
Soilmark of square enclosure.
A. Gregory (NAU) and informant [1].

14 July 1982. Farmer [2] states that site is a water meadow, has never been ploughed and is only now about to be drained. This casts doubt upon above interpretation. Informant [3].
D. Edwards (NAU), 14 July 1982.

Perhaps earthwork of a moat?
E. Rose (NAU), 14 July 1982.

A map prepared by (4) of land owned by Spicers Farm, Aslacton/Bunwell, in 1839, shows a curious re-entrant avoiding this plot alone.
E. Rose (NAU), 18 November 1982.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: OS AP 73 359 178.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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Record last edited

Apr 20 2017 3:42PM

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