NHER 18155 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of medieval to post medieval enclosures and field boundaries

9 June 1980. NAU aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Possible moat adjacent Panxworth Hall.
D. Edwards (NAU) 7 June 1982.

Panxworth Hall is marked as Red Lion Inn on Faden's map 1797.
Also, cropmarks of two double-ditched parallel trackways further northeast.
E. Rose (NAU) 9 June 1982.

However, later photographs show the trackways to be in fact sides of a double-ditched rectangular enclosure of which the east side has been destroyed by the road.
E. Rose (NAU) 20 August 1982.

8 July 1996. NAU aerial photography.
Cropmarks previously recorded still visible.
H. Clare (NLA) 26 October 2001.

October 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks of medieval to post medieval enclosures and field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S5). These cropmarks are located to the north of Panxworth Hall and their central grid reference has been amended from TG 3470 1280 to TG 3476 1299. A cropmark of an incomplete rectilinear enclosure is present in the southern corner of the group adjacent to the hall. Only the northwest and northeast sides of the enclosure are visible as cropmarks. It is possibly a double-ditched enclosure lying on a roughly southwest to northeast alignment. The inner ditch is 2.5m wide and extends for 56m by 50m. The outer ditch is generally narrower than the inner ditch except at the northern corner where it broadens out to 6m wide. The outer ditch along the northeast side is coincident with one of two northwest to southeast aligned field boundaries. Although this enclosure has previously been considered to be a possible moat associated with Panxworth Hall, there is no direct evidence to support this. Further to the northeast are two more adjoining double-ditched enclosures. They are clearly defined by narrow ditches spaced 4m apart. Although these cropmarks were previously interpreted as trackways it is likely that they are simply double-ditched boundaries. These enclosures are subdivided by narrow single ditches and have internal dimensions of 56m by 47m and 60m by 32m. To the northwest of these enclosures are field boundaries on a similar rectilinear plan. Although two of these field boundaries are present on the mid-19th century Woodbastwick tithe map (S6), the others are not present at that date. It is likely that this group of cropmarks relates to the shrunken settlement of Panxworth and that they are mainly of medieval to post medieval date. Further field boundary cropmarks are present to the northwest (NHER 45146).
J. Albone (NMP) 16 October 2006