NHER 16095 (Monument record) - Soilmark of earthbank bank

19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey Air Photography.
Soil marks of ploughed out bank extending over length of 1.7km and for part of this length co-incident with recently removed field boundaries.
Subject reported by A. Rogerson (NAU) in course of Fransham field survey.
D. Edwards (NAU) 30 April 1980.

This bank seems to form an important division of the settlement in the parish, and was a separate enclosure near the church on (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU)

December 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
Sections of bank (see above), possibly of medieval date, are visible as earthworks on recent (2017) visualised lidar data and as soilmarks on aerial photographs (S2-S8). The sections of bank most likely formed a long boundary bank associated with land division. The feature is most likely medieval in date, although, a later post medieval date cannot be ruled out. The eastern sections of bank corresponds with post medieval boundaries mapped on the Tithe (S9), Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6" map (S10) and the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25" map (S11). It is possible that the bank is an earlier medieval feature which may have been solidified into later post medieval field boundaries. The sections of bank can be seen as a soilmarks on aerial photographs (S1-S7) and low spread earthworks on the recent (2017) visualised lidar data (S8). As the lidar survey was flown in 2017, it is likely that the features still survive as very low earthworks.
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 06 December 2023.