NHER 11744 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of undated enclosures and trackway

NAU aerial photography (S1).
Cropmark of large rectangular enclosure with suggestions of another adjacent - probably old fields - and a track leading from Model Farm to kink in field boundary to east.
Now destroyed by gravel workings.
E. Rose (NAU), 24 October 1976.

Possible mistake - cropmarks may have not been destroyed by 1992.

June 1997.
They have been destroyed since the photographs were taken.
D. Gurney (NLA), June 1997

February 2001. Desk Based Assessment
Site falls under area covered by archaeological desk top survey.
Results of this confirm that the site has been destroyed by mineral extraction, although the land was subsequently reinstated.
See report (S2) for further details.
S. Tremlett (NAU), 30 April 2001.

The central grid reference for this site has been altered from TG 1561 1223 to TG 1566 1229. The trackways previously recorded under this number are now under NHER 54473.

September 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of enclosures and/or fields of unknown but possible Roman date are visible on aerial photographs to the north of the former Brick Farm site, Costessey (S1, S3-S5). The site is centred on TG 1566 1229. The trackways previously recorded under this number are now under NHER 54473, see record for details. The site consists of an incomplete rectangular enclosure, potentially measuring 69m by up to 57m. Ditches following the same alignment are likely to represent associated boundaries and possible represent fragments of further enclosures and/or fields. The date of these cropmarks is uncertain. It is assumed that they predate the trackways and boundaries recorded under NHER 54473, which are thought to be medieval to post medieval in date. A Roman date for the enclosures and/or fields is therefore a possibility although there are currently no known finds of this date in the immediate vicinity to corroborate this interpretation. See NHER 54465 for fragmentary enclosures and ditches to the east that follow a similar alignment and may be of a comparable date.
S. Horlock (NMP), 07 September 2010.