NHER 18316 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of post medieval field boundaries and undated linear and curvilinear ditches

15 July 1980.
NAU aerial photography.
Positive, reversed, cropmarks.
Linear ditches as cropmark features.
D. Edwards (NAU), 15 July 1982.

January 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks of undated linear and curvilinear ditches and field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs (S1-3). The central grid reference for these cropmarks has been adjusted from TG 3365 3125 to TG 3364 3118. Although these cropmarks appear to form a continuation of the extensive complex to their north and west (NHER 27237) no individual features could be traced between the two groups. Consequently this group of cropmarks to the south of Manor Farm, which is bounded by roads on all sides, was kept separate under its original NHER number.

These cropmarks include a curving double ditch that extends for up to 195m between TG 3350 3116 and TG 3369 3113. The ditches are spaced between 3m and 4m apart and could represent a narrow trackway or double-ditched field boundary of unknown date. A second double-ditched cropmark extends between TG 3365 3120 and TG 3375 3117. It appears to have a rounded southeastern end and is probably also a field boundary. An intermittent single linear ditch on a southwest to northeast alignment extends from TG 3360 3117 to TG 3378 3124. Further sections of ditch cropmarks are present to its south on roughly parallel and perpendicular alignments. These ditches are possibly all related and may represent fragmentary field boundaries of unknown date. However, the alignment of these cropmarks does not correspond to the fragmentary field systems recorded further to the north and west (NHER 27237). A curved L-shaped ditch in the northeast of the group at TG 3376 3125 relates to a field boundary marked on the 1827 Witton enclosure map (S4). None of the other cropmarks relate to features shown on this map or later maps and their dates are unknown.
(S1-4).
J. Albone (NMP), 26 January 2005.